From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: namestring to pathname and back Date: 1999/08/25 Message-ID: <3144566810748650@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 516960478 References: mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; +1 510 435 8604; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Vassil Nikolov | * provide a function that `translates' a Lisp pathname designator into | am operating system filename (this functionality is present in a | Lisp implementation anyway since it must be able to construct | OS-level filenames from Lisp pathnames in order to make system | calls). this is what you're supposed to get back from the NAMESTRING function applied to a physical pathname object. | Yes, that would be perhaps a good thing, but that's much stronger than | just having access to the result of the conversion from Lisp pathnames | into OS filenames. I'm uncertain why you think this is currently missing. what have you tried and found wanting? #:Erik -- save the children: just say NO to sex with pro-lifers