Subject: Re: logical pathnames - lack of info? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:10:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3223361449720827@naggum.net> * Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> | if they are amazingly obvious they should be easy to explain Quite the contrary. The obvious eludes explanation. It usually takes a trained philosopher to see things are obvious to most people from an unobvious angle and describe it back to them in terms that interest them much more than the obvious matter at hand would. | the doc is so bad we cannot even formulate questions, that is why we | simply ask where to find good doc. I find this a rather peculiar position, but since I read this from the specifications and tend to use pathname translations to provide a virtual file system that is far easier to maneuver than the physical file system I have to work on, I really do wonder what the problem is. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.