27 LispWorks' Operating Environment

This chapter describes the interfaces which provide information about the environment in which LispWorks is running. This includes the operating system, the file system, the physical location of the LispWorks executable, and the arguments it was passed on startup.

27.1 The Operating System

27.2 Site Name

27.3 The Lisp Image

27.4 The Command Line

27.5 Address Space and Image Size

27.6 Startup relocation

27.7 Calling external programs

27.8 Snapshot debugging of startup errors

27.9 System message log

27.10 Exit status

27.11 Creating a new executable with code preloaded

27.12 User Preferences

27.13 File system interface

27.14 Special locations in the file system

27.15 Accessing the Windows registry

27.16 Pathname comparison on Mac OS X

LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual - 20 Sep 2017