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You should now be able to start Femlisp by executing the script
femlisp/bin/femlisp. The first time you use this script, your
Lisp implementation will have to compile Femlisp which may take a
while. The next time, startup will be much faster. You can exit
Lisp/Femlisp by typing "(quit)". Note that it is recommendable to
invoke this newly created executable either from an Emacs shell buffer
or wrapped inside the readline-wrap rlwrap (i.e. as
rlwrap femlisp).
You can also save a core which avoids reloading Femlisp during startup. This is done by executing the command
make femlisp
After that, Femlisp should always start up fast. Note that after a change in Femlisp source code, this step has to be repeated.