This is embarrassing. I have known most of what I need and forgotten. I would like to write for myself a simplified version of lman, just to switch between half a dozen preset layer states. I have used pull down menus, and I guess that was scripts. But I would like to do it with lisp.
I am slowly coming around to really liking vl-sort, but other than that, if it starts with "vl" I have not needed it - yet.
I can handle the symbol tables well enough, but the LAYERS table is not editable, in the same fashion as others. But it seems I remember a there is a way, or was, to simply freeze & thaw from pure lisp, and that is what I am after.
thanks
roy