There is no standard for dumping a Lisp image. Here are the

commands from some lisp implementations:

Lucid: DISKSAVE

Symbolics: Save World [CP command]

CMU CL: SAVE-LISP

Franz Allegro: EXCL:DUMPLISP (documented)

SAVE-IMAGE (undocumented)

Medley: IL:SYSOUT or IL:MAKESYS

MCL: SAVE-APPLICATION <pathname>

&key :toplevel-function :creator :excise-compiler

:size :resources :init-file :clear-clos-caches

KCL: (si:save-system "saved_kcl")

LispWorks: LW:SAVE-IMAGE

Be sure to garbage collect before dumping the image. You may need to

experiment with the kind of garbage collection for large images, and

may find better results if you build the image in stages.

There is no standard for running a Unix shell command from Lisp,

especially since not all Lisps run on top of Unix. Here are the

commands from some Lisp implementations:

Allegro: EXCL:RUN-SHELL-COMMAND (command &key input output

error-output wait if-input-does-not-exist

if-output-exists if-error-output-exists)

Lucid: RUN-PROGRAM (name

&key input output

error-output (wait t) arguments

(if-input-does-not-exist :error)

(if-output-exists :error)

(if-error-output-exists :error))

KCL: SYSTEM

For example, (system "ls -l").

You can also try RUN-PROCESS and EXCLP, but they

don't work with all versions of KCL.

CMU CL: RUN-PROGRAM (program args

&key (env *environment-list*) (wait t) pty input

if-input-does-not-exist output

(if-output-exists :error) (error :output)

(if-error-exists :error) status-hook before-execve)

LispWorks: FOREIGN:CALL-SYSTEM-SHOWING-OUTPUT

To toggle source file recording and cross-reference annotations, use

Allegro: excl:*record-source-file-info*

excl:*load-source-file-info*

excl:*record-xref-info*

excl:*load-xref-info*

LispWorks: (toggle-source-debugging nil)

Memory management:

CMU CL: (bytes-consed-between-gcs) [this is setfable]

Lucid: (change-memory-management

&key growth-limit expand expand-reserved)

Allegro: *tenured-bytes-limit*

LispWorks: LW:GET-GC-PARAMETERS

(use LW:SET-GC-PARAMETERS to change them)

Environment Variable Access:

Allegro: (sys:getenv var)

(sys:setenv var value) or (setf (sys:getenv var) value)

Lucid: (environment-variable var)

(set-environment-variable var value)

CMU CL 17: (cdr (assoc (intern var :keyword) *environment-list*))

{A}KCL, GCL: (system:getenv var)

CLISP: (system::getenv var)

Exiting/Quitting:

CLISP: EXIT

Allegro: EXIT (&optional excl::code &rest excl::args

&key excl::no-unwind excl::quiet)

LispWorks: BYE (&optional (arg 0))

Lucid: QUIT (&optional (lucid::status 0))

CMU CL: QUIT (&optional recklessly-p)