From ... Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Question on the role of :absolute and :relative directories and logical pathnames References: <86elu9uqnf.fsf@mustyr-host.hq.fitit.be> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3197726566938696@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:22:47 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 988737767 195.0.192.66 (Tue, 01 May 2001 19:22:47 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:22:47 MET DST Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.lisp:9499 * Peter Van Eynde > I've bumped into a problem. What is the meaning of a :relative or > :absolute directory when one is talking about logical pathames? Whether they match one translation rule or another. > I think that foo:;bar;source.lisp and foo:bar;source.lisp have a > different meaning, and that the second can legally be translated (on some > unix machine) to /bar/source.lisp. Irrespective of where the logical > pathname foo points to. That seems very, very dubious. #:Erik -- I found no peace in solitude. I found no chaos in catastrophe. -- :wumpscut: