erik>   it's better to refer to the actual standard, kindly provided to the Net
erik>   by Harlequin and Kent Pitman: http://www.harlequin.com/books/HyperSpec/
erik>   in particular, SUBSEQ is at

Thanks a lot!

erik> | Strange -- ACL 4.3 on Unix knows about it...
erik>   check again.  but ACL 4.3.1 with patch 0306 installed does...

You're right, of course, I'd forgotten that I'd patched 4.3.1.

erik> 
erik> | I wish that we *could* buy the full product for Linux.  Maybe if enough of us
erik> | use the free version and request a (commercial) full version be made
erik> | available...
erik> 
erik>   well, you _can_ buy the support deal for Linux.  it's a lot cheaper than
erik>   the full license fee the first year if you remain within the 25 hours of
erik>   support that you buy, but it costs the same next year, too.  a client of
erik>   mine is going to purchase one or more such support agreements until we
erik>   (hopefully) can purchase the real thing somewhere down the line.  not
erik>   only does purchasing a support contact land you support and fixes, maybe
erik>   also "new features" from the standard, but you show good support for the
erik>   decision to make ACL available to the Linux world.

But there's the problem.  I'm not about to move all our code, only some of
which is written in Lisp, from Sun to Linux until I know that the Linux
version of ACL will be a full product, not only with support (which I don't
use very much at all) but with the same upgrade path as the Unix version.  So
I'm not going to invest the money or (especially) the time, come to rely on
the Linux version, only to find later that it is becoming increasingly
out-of-date and possibly unsupported.  If they offer the product, then it
makes sense, but not before, at least not to me.

   --Roy
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