From: ole mengshoel

Subject: Re: Logical pathnames

Date: 1996-7-8 19:49


Donald H. Mitchell wrote: 

> > The problem is that "/lib/prog/.LSP" is returned rather than > > "/lib/prog/documentation.lisp".
> > It works fine if your translations use MS-DOS syntax rather than Unix > syntax. The problem is that it knows that it's a logical pathname, but > it cannot interpret unix directory slashes because they're meaningless in > Windows/DOS. Thus, it thinks the filename is either "documentation" or > "/lib/prog/" and for some reason, "/lib/prog/" wins. > > See attached file for example showing that it does work if you use MS > syntax.
Thanks for the above hint and the LOGPATH.LSP file! I've now gotten my pathnames to work under ACL4W, and it seems to work very well. Ole J. Mengshoel.