>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pascal> * (setf path-ext (MAKE-PATHNAME :TYPE EXT :defaults path))
Pascal> Warning: Declaring PATH-EXT special.
Pascal> #.(logical-pathname
"PACKAGES:COM;INFORMATIMAGO;COMMON-LISP;UTILITY.lisp")
Pascal> * (probe-file *)
Pascal> NIL
Pascal> * (probe-file path-ext)
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Does this also happen in 19a or a recent snapshot? You didn't provide
quite enough information above (what is path? What is EXT?) for me to
reproduce anything, but a very simple test shows that path-ext is
#P"PACKAGES:COM;INFORMATIMAGO;COMMON-LISP;UTILITY.LISP"
Ray