From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!hamster.europeonline.net!newsfeed.europeonline.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: More inconsistencies with file/directory operations References: <3bc4ac25.84615310@news> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3211781440028443@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:30:40 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1002792640 193.90.206.180 (Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:30:40 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:30:40 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:17638 * massar@alum.mit.edu (JP Massar) | Allegro does not; RENAME-FILE tells you that the file FOO does not | exist. (nor does including a terminating '/' work). The only way | to rename a directory is to use implementation-specific EXCL: | functions to copy the directory and then delete the old one. Are you sure the file that holds the directory is not _actually_ called something else? foo.dir or something? As far as I know, it is fairly unique to Unix to have directories that are available in the file system as files with exactly the same name as the directory. But I have made it a point of personal pride not to be infected by STDs or Microsoft. /// -- My hero, George W. Bush, has taught me how to deal with people. "Make no mistake", he has said about 2500 times in the past three weeks, and those who make mistakes now feel his infinite wrath, or was that enduring care?