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
