Re: [clisp-list] Support of Windows' \\mymachine\mydir\myfile namestrings?

[Bruno H. <ha...@il...>]

Georges KO asked:
>     Will there be support for namestrings such as above?
Sam Steingold:
> http://clisp.sourceforge.net/impnotes.html#filenames says that the
> `host' component of a pathname is always nil - Bruno, how important is
> this requirement for you?

This is not a requirement; it's a description of what the
implementation currently does. And it does it because Georges Ko is
the first one who realized that it could be useful. (At the time I did
the Win32 port, this \\hostname\subdir\filename.type syntax wasn't
frequently used.)

Bruno