Loading packages

From: Matt <email@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:15:47 GMT

You guys, please help,  I'm going nuts trying to write a lexer
in Lisp and I can't take it anymore.  I downloaded a package
from, ah, the internet, Michael Parker to be exact, and I can't
figure out how to load it into CLisp.  It has three different
packages that all have to be used together apparently, and they
share file names, so I put them in three different folders:
clawk, lexer and regex.  I want to use the lexer package, but
it needs the other two.  The lexer package has these files:

   lexer.lisp
   lexer.system
   lexer.translations
   packages.lisp

The other packages have similar files.  They all have a file
called "packages.lisp".  Can anyone tell me what the deal is
with these?  What is packages.lisp and what are the .system
and .translations files for?  And what commands do I need to
issue to use them?  It keeps telling me that some package
doesn't exist when I try to load them.  I can't figure it out
and there's no documentation or anything.

Thanks!
Matt
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