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What is the Allegro Common Lisp Netscape Plugin?

April 26, 2017Allegro common LISP netscape plugin

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What is the Allegro Common Lisp Netscape Plugin?

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The Allegro Common Lisp Netscape Plugin supports executing Common Lisp code that is referenced in a web page’s HTML source. After installing the plugin files in the Netscape Plugins directory, users may execute Lisp applications available on a remote network location. The Lisp application may create Windows controls and graphics in the Netscape browser window. Below is an example. To execute it, you must first install Netscape 4.0 on your PC. Then, following the steps below, generate the files npacl.dll, and npacl.dxl. Copy these two files along with two other files from the Allegro CL installation directory lnkacl.dll and acl.*pll (name varies depending on which Allegro CL version you have installed) into the Netscape plugins directory. Note: you must restart Netscape after putting files in the plugins directory, since Netscape only looks at this directory when it starts. Here is an example, called the Game of Life, which you can run after restarting Netscape with the new plu