Re: Where to look for the API documentation?

You could check out clisps socket functions
http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/rawsock.html.
clisp also comes in lisp in a box. As far as I remember the allegro
trial is on a time limit, so it's a good idea to get used to something
else (if I'm wrong about the time limit, please correct me, it was a
while ago that I got acl).

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