Hi,
I'm working with ACL/W3.0.2 and Win NT4.0 .

When I'm not mounting network devices but using them via UNC, I get an
error while calling (pathname-device <path>). To be precise, I don't get
an error, I get Nil.

I think that's not correct, it should be the name of the device. Of
course, if I use the name as an argument to :device in make-pathname it
works and I can use it as a normal path specification. Although the
path  no longer looks like UNC (see the example below).

> (setq foo (ask-user-for-existing-pathname "foo"))
#P"\\\\Nt-server\\Quellen\\startup_gemeinsam.lsp"
> (pathname-device foo)
NIL
> (pathname-directory foo)
(:ABSOLUTE "" "Nt-server" "Quellen")
> (make-pathname  :device "Nt-server" :directory "quellen")
#P"Nt-server:\\quellen\\"

> (ask-user-for-existing-pathname "foo" :host (namestring *))
NIL

Thanks for any hints,

- stefan

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