RE: Legal logical-pathname characters

Indeed, that's exactly the approach I'm taking. No worries; just being a bit
lazy.

dey

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin@lispworks.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:02 PM
To: deyoung@bloodhoundinc.com
Cc: edi@agharta.de; deyoung@bloodhoundinc.com; lisp-hug@lispworks.com
Subject: Re: Legal logical-pathname characters


>>>>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:23:26 -0500, "Young, David"
<deyoung@bloodhoundinc.com> said:

  dey> Yes it does. Nevertheless, I have folder names in the filesystem
containing
  dey> this character, and renaming them isn't an option for us. I noticed
that ACL
  dey> offers a mechanism to indicate additional allowed characters that may
appear
  dey> in pathnames, and was wondering if Lispworks offered something
similar.

No, sorry, there is no way to do this.

It is probably best to use physical pathnames (just translate the logical
pathname directory once), because CL doesn't support mapping from physical
to
logical pathnames very well.

Martin Simmons                              Email: martin@lispworks.com
LispWorks Ltd, St John's Innovation Centre    TEL:   +44 1223 421860
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  dey> -----Original Message-----
  dey> From: Edi Weitz [mailto:edi@agharta.de]
  dey> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:26 AM
  dey> To: Young, David
  dey> Cc: 'lisp-hug@lispworks.com'
  dey> Subject: Re: Legal logical-pathname characters


  dey> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:02:07 -0500, "Young, David"
  dey> <deyoung@bloodhoundinc.com> wrote:

  >> Is it possible to persuade Lispworks to accept this character for
  >> logical pathnames?

  dey> If I understand this correctly that would violate 19.3.1 of the ANSI
  dey> standard.

  dey> Cheers,
  dey> Edi.

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