title: Common Lisp: unable to load a file into the Lisp interpreter
body: <p>Lisp newbie here.</p>
  
  <p>I created a function and put it into this file: compress.lisp</p>
  
  <p>Now I want to load it into the Lisp interpreter that I am using, GCL-2.6.2-ANSI</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I typed into the interpreter:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(load "compress.lisp")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The interpreter responds with this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error in EVAL [or a callee]: Cannot open the file compress.lisp.
  
  Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
  Broken at CONDITIONS::CLCS-LOAD.  Type :H for Help.
   1 (Continue) Retry loading file "compress.lisp".
   2 (Abort) Return to top level.
  dbl:&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is loading a file not allowed with GCL-2.6.2-ANSI? Or (more likely) I did something incorrect; if so, what?</p>