The LispWorks Reference Manual is organized by package. Each chapter contains detailed reference material for all the exported symbols in a given package. Within any chapter, the symbols are organized alphabetically (ignoring non-alphanumeric characters that are common in Lisp symbols, such as *). The chapters themselves are organized alphabetically, as follows:
COMMON-LISP
package. You should refer to the Common Lisp Hyperspec, supplied in HTML format with LispWorks, for full documentation about standard Common Lisp symbols.
COMPILER
package.
DBG
package, used to configure the debugging information produced by LispWorks.
DSPEC
package, which are used for naming and locating definitions.
EXTERNAL-FORMAT
package.
HCL
package.
LINK-LOAD
package. It applies only to UNIX LispWorks, not LispWorks for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.
LISPWORKS
package.
MP
package, giving you access to the multi-processing capabilities of LispWorks.
PARSERGEN
package, the LispWorks parser generator.
STREAM
package that provide users with the functionality to define their own streams for use by the standard I/O functions.
SYSTEM
package.
WIN32
package. It applies only to LispWorks for Windows.Many chapters in the LispWorks Reference Manual should be used in conjunction with relevant chapters in the LispWorks User Guide that describe use of the module pertaining to the package.
Reference material for some aspects of LispWorks can be found in places other than this manual.
CAPI
package, and related packages
GP
and
COLOR
.