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probe-file
- To: clisp-list@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
- Subject: probe-file
- From: Pierpaolo Bernardi <bernardp@CLI.DI.Unipi.IT>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:05:53 +0200 (MET DST)
- Organization: Centro di Calcolo - Dipartimento di Informatica di Pisa - Italy
Impnotes says:
> PROBE-FILE may be used to check whether a directory exists.
but Clisp says:
[CL-USER]> (probe-file "/")
*** - no file name given: #"/"
1. Break[CL-USER]>
[CL-USER]> (probe-file "/tmp")
#"/tmp"
[CL-USER]> (probe-file "/tmp/")
*** - no file name given: #"/tmp/"
1. Break[CL-USER]>
Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding something? If this is the
intended behaviour, I find it quite confusing, and difficult to use.
(lisp-implementation-version) ==> "1996-05-30 (May 1996)"
uname ==> Linux 2.0.30 i486
Cheers,
Pierpaolo