Recent changes to the ACL FAQ

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Each item in the FAQ has a date indicating the last significant modification. (A modification is significant if new or different information is provided. A modification that simply fixes trivial and obvious errors, such as spelling errors, is not significant.) All dates are September 1, 1999 (the date of the change between a 5.0-based FAQ to a 5.0.1-based FAQ) or later.

The FAQ items that have been most recently modified are:

Q 3.9-9) How can I tell what addresses are being used in my process space? (Created or last modified 7/17/00)
Q 3-9.10) [Windows only] How do I move DLL in memory so that it doesn't conflict with the Lisp heap? (Created or last modified 7/17/00)
Q 3-9.11) What does the "Temporarily scaling back lisp reserved region from XXX to YYY bytes." mean? (Created or last modified 7/17/00)
Q 3.1-8) Can I have the debugging evalmode allowing local evaluation (:evalmode :context t) on all the time? (Created 4/18/00)
Q 1.3-2) Can I find the IP adress of ftp.franz.com? (Last modified 4/18/00)
Q 4.6-5) I try doing a Full Compile on the IDE tutorial (chapter 4, step 7) and I get an error. Why and what should I do? (Created 3/2/00)
Q 3.8-2) [UNIX only] Why does generate-application make hard links to the files it copies, and is there a way to change this? (Created 11/19/99)
Q 4.6-3) Why doesn't unzip work on Linux Redhat 6 system? [Allegro CL Trial Edition only.] (Created 11/19/99)
Q 4.6-4) Why doesn't unzip work on FreeBSD 3.x   system? [Allegro CL Trial Edition only.] (Created 11/19/99)
Q 4.10-2) My Windows AllegroStore application that creates many lightweight processes using the ACL multiprocessing functionality grinds to a halt at some point, locking my computer. (Created 11/16/99)
Q 3.1-7) Why does it take so long to load a file that interns several thousand symbols in a package? (Created 11/15/99)
Q 3.6-1) Can I use CL-HTTP with Allegro CL? (Modified 11/15/99)
Q 3.1-6) How can I encode and decode floats quickly, accurately, and without consing, for the purpose of sending them to a separate process? (Created 11/12/99)
Q 1.3-4) [Windows only] Why am I getting an undefined function (function MoveFileEx) error when I use sys:update-allegro? (created 11/4/99, title changed to make searching easier 2/4/00)
Q 1.3-5) Is there a list of available patches for ACL 5.0.1?
(created 11/4/99)
Q 1-4.3) Is the ACL documentation updated between releases, and if so, where can I get the update?
(created 10/19/99)
Q 1.3-1) Is there a public patch directory you maintain for incremental patches to ACL? If so, how do I get to it? (Last modified 10/11/99)
Q 3.1-5) How can I use run-shell-command in a multiprocessing friendly way? (Created or last modified 9/9/99)


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