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+# lisp-invocation
+
+lisp-invocation is a small library for starting Lisp processes from Common Lisp.
+
+lisp-invocation actually only computes the proper command-line invocations;
+to actually run a process, you will use
+[uiop:run-program](http://cliki.net/uiop),
+[inferior-shell:run](http://cliki.net/inferior-shell), or
+[external-program:start](http://cliki.net/external-program).
+
+
+## Usage
+
+A simple example: Starting an SBCL process, running some code and quitting.
+Here we use [uiop:run-program](http://cliki.net/uiop) to run the process
+and extract its output.
+
+    (let ((impl :sbcl))
+      (uiop:run-program
+       (lisp-invocation:lisp-invocation-arglist
+        :implementation-type impl
+        :eval (format nil "(progn (format t \"~~{~~31R~~^ ~~}~~%\" '~S) ~A)"
+                      '(595756 9556552524 643802 496307950)
+                      (lisp-invocation:quit-form :code 0 :implementation-type impl)))
+       :output :string))
+
+## License
+
+Free Software available under an MIT-style license.
+
+Copyright (c) 2008 ITA Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.