I'm checking out Common Music. I've just installed it and it seems to come
up ok, but when I enter stella and try the "help help" command I get the
following:

Stella [Top-Level]: help help

*** - MAKE-PATHNAME: illegal :DIRECTORY argument (:ABSOLUTE "commonmusic"
"CM" "doc/dict")
The following restarts are available:
R1 = Return to Top-Level.
R2 = Exit Top-Level.
1. Break> R1

Anyone know what might be causing this? 

BTW, I am somewhat familiar with common lisp...

Thanks,

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 markg@pacifier.com wrote:

> I'm checking out Common Music. I've just installed it and it seems to come
> up ok, but when I enter stella and try the "help help" command I get the
> following:
> 
> Stella [Top-Level]: help help
> 
> *** - MAKE-PATHNAME: illegal :DIRECTORY argument (:ABSOLUTE "commonmusic"
> "CM" "doc/dict")

No, we don't know what causes this, but just yesterday someone
else ran into it. However, this person did never have problems
before, so it's hard to track down.  could you send me a
backtrace?  Also, what is the full pathname of your installation?

the output of (lisp-implementation-version) and (cm-version) 
would also be helpful as would be a hint whether you are running
emacs or not.  (is anyone on earth really using this dos shell
thing they ship with windows??)

-Tobias