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Re: user-homedir-pathname in dos
- To: clisp-list@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
- Subject: Re: user-homedir-pathname in dos
- From: haible (Bruno Haible)
- Date: Thu, 5 May 94 17:09:44 +0200
Rick Taube <hkt@zkm.de> asks:
> Is there some reason that the function USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME is missing
> from the DOS port of CLISP?
That's how it is specified:
(USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME) determines "the pathname that corresponds to
the user's home directory". ...
"The definition of home directory is implementation-dependent,
but defined in Common Lisp to mean the directory where the user
keeps personal files such as initialization files and mail."
Well, how could this make sense on DOS?
> Also, why is it an error to give lower case strings to make-pathname?
> > (make-pathname :name "test" :type "lsp")
> *** - MAKE-PATHNAME: illegal :NAME argument "test"
Because otherwise you couldn't rely on
(pathname-name (make-pathname :name something))
being EQUAL to something.
Use PATHNAME or PARSE-NAMESTRING to convert strings to pathnames,
and make use of MERGE-PATHNAMES to combine pathnames.
> functions like DIR and PATHNAME all accept lower case file names.
But I consider MAKE-PATHNAME to be more low-level than PATHNAME.
Bruno Haible
haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de