1.3 Conventions and terminology used in this manual

This section discusses the conventions and terminology that are used throughout this manual.

1.3.1 Common Lisp reference text

The Common Lisp reference text for Delivery and LispWorks is the ANSI Common Lisp standard. A HTML version of this standard is installed with LispWorks and can be viewed by choosing Help > Manuals from the LispWorks podium and selecting "ANSI Common Lisp Standard". This is referred to as "the ANSI standard" throughout.

1.3.2 Platform-specific keywords

Some of the delivery parameters do not apply to all platforms. This is indicated where applicable:

Windows

means all supported Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Linux

means all supported Linux and FreeBSD operating systems.

x86/x64 Solaris

means all supported Solaris operating systems running on x86 or x64 hardware. It does not include SPARC hardware.

DLL

means a Microsoft Windows dynamic link library.

Dynamic library

means a loadable dynamic shared library on any platform, including Windows DLLs.

1.3.3 Example files

This manual often refers to example files in the LispWorks library, like this:


(example-edit-fle "delivery/hello/deliver")

These examples are Lisp source files in your LispWorks installation under lib/7-0-0-0/examples/. You can simply evaluate the given form to view the example source file.