i had observed this, but did not realize that the interface precluded string forms for 
physical hosts.

is there an accepted way to coerce these to strings?

...

Raymond Toy wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "james" == james anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     james> ? does pathname-host not sometimes return a string?
> 
> With 18e:
> 
> (pathname-host "/tmp/foo.lisp") => #<COMMON-LISP::UNIX-HOST>
> 
> It seems that we're not ANSI compliant here.  This probably won't be
> fixed for 18e.
> 
> Ray


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