i'll ask the question differently: can different unix hosts be present in a cmucl 
runtime? if so, how are they designated when passed as parameters to make-pathname, 
and how does
one extract this designation from the host instance?

james anderson wrote:
> 
> 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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