Re: PARSE-NAMESTRING and LOGICAL-PATHNAMEs

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

Sam writes:

> it is not clear what should be done on win32 when you do
> (setf (logical-pathname-translations "a") (("*.*" "/user/zut/")))
> (parse-namestring "a:xxx")
> should it be /user/zut/xxx or a:xxx?

Exactly. And not only on Win32. On Linux too, I have pathnames containing
a colon. What should a user think of Lisp if all programs on his system
can deal with his pathnames, except the Lisp programs which then complain
about an invalid logical host?

Bruno