Subject: Re: merge-pathnames From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/09/21 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3146888016725543@naggum.no> * "Marc Battyani" <Marc_Battyani@csi.com> | I have a function that receive a pathname representing a directory but | the name and type are set to :unspecific so when I use #'directory on | this pathname it returns the pathname. I'm not sure what it should return in that case, but such a pathname argument is not a physically existing pathname. I'd expect () as the return value. | It's ok so far but is there a better way than transforming the pathname | to a namestring and merge it with "*.*" to get #'directory to give me the | files in tht directory? (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :defaults <whatever>) #:Erik