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4 <!ENTITY ANSI "<acronym>ANSI</>">
5 <!ENTITY CMUCL "<application>CMU CL</>">
6 <!ENTITY IEEE "<acronym>IEEE</>">
7 <!ENTITY Python "<application>Python</>">
8 <!ENTITY SBCL "<application>SBCL</>">
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11 <!-- KLUDGE: There doesn't seem to be any DocBook tag for names of
12 programming languages. Typesetting Lisp Common Lisp as an
13 <application> looks funny. Is there a better way?
15 <!ENTITY CommonLisp "Common Lisp">
18 <!-- common expressions I haven't figured out how to express -->
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23 <!ENTITY ch-compiler SYSTEM "compiler.sgml">
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33 <title>&SBCL; User Manual</title>
36 <para>This manual is part of the &SBCL; software system. See the
37 <filename>README</> file for more information.</para>
39 <para>This manual is derived in part from the manual for the &CMUCL;
40 system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and
41 later released into the public domain. This manual is in the
42 public domain and is provided with absolutely no warranty. See the
43 <filename>COPYING</> and <filename>CREDITS</> files for more
56 <para>This manual is maintained in SGML/DocBook, and automatically
57 translated into other forms (e.g. HTML or TeX). If you're
58 <emphasis>reading</> this manual in one of these non-DocBook
59 translated forms, that's fine, but if you want to <emphasis>modify</>
60 this manual, you are strongly advised to seek out a DocBook version
61 and modify that instead of modifying a translated version. Even
62 better might be to seek out <emphasis>the</> DocBook version
63 (maintained at the time of this writing as part of
64 <ulink url="http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/">the &SBCL; project</>)
65 and submit a patch.</para>