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I've started reading Practical Common Lisp and so I also wanted to get lispbox installed on my USB stick to play around with it. Lispbox is a fully self contained lisp environment + editor + extras that is supposed to be portable. I got it installed but it was giving me an error before loading. So that was sad.
After looking it at it more closely I noticed it was an access denied error. Upon further inspection it was trying to write to the C: drive and that's not possible on our school computers. After some googleing I came upon this post which had the solution. In lispbox.bat add 'set HOME=%CD%' just before the line launching emacs. Then it uses the USB stick as the 'home' directory and everything works.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:46 am
So, do you have any other tips for using Lispbox (I just downloaded Lispbox07) from a thumbdrive under Windows XP (SP2)? Thanks for the ’set HOME=%CD%’ tip, by the way. — Clint