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I suggest using a debugger for better understanding how your variables get changed. Also, you may want to look for the definition of the "classic" #'group function. That will teach you a generic (beautiful) solution to your problem; your code resembles C too much

The function #'append expects a list as a first parameter, but you have passed 'ret' which has the value of '3'. I am not sure if your code will work as desired, but you can try this: (append (list ret) (list entry)) I would solve your problem with something like this: (let ((l (list "a" &...

Check the *inferior-lisp* Emacs buffer for errors.

You could try to read the first two bytes (with #'read-byte) and just ignore them if they match the BOM signature.

If you are using the personal license for LispWorks then that is probably why you cannot create executables. Clozure CL and CLISP can create Win32 executables and have no artificial limitations (as far as I know).

Why don't you just save a copy of the source code and convert these files to the some "good" encoding for Windows ? I did something similar using this function (works in ccl): (defun convert-file-encoding (file-encoding target-encoding file) "Converts `file' from `file-encoding' to `t...

Why are you using #.*standard-output* ? You could probably get rid of the #. (but maybe I'm wrong).
Also, the output stream parameter to #'print defaults to *standard-output*, so you may remove it altogether.
Yes, this does not help you

I'm running the following code in CLISP: (defun test () (format t "~A")) (compile 'test) ;; this is required to reproduce the error (test) When running #'test without compiling it first, the error is (obviously): There are not enough arguments left for this format directive. After compilin...

You need to write the "flatten" function (you can search for it, but try to write it yourself).

Check your asdf:*central-registry* variable. It should contain something like: ("/path/to/asdf-install.asd" ....) If it doesn't, you'll need to push the asdf-install.asd into the asdf:*central-registry* (not the folder that contains the .asd file). Also, you can check if the path is correc...