Subject: Re: Question on the role of :absolute and :relative directories and logical pathnames From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:22:47 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3197726566938696@naggum.net> * 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: