>>>>> "james" == james anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    james> i'll ask the question differently: can different unix hosts
    james> be present in a cmucl runtime? if so, how are they

There is only one unix-host.

    james> designated when passed as parameters to make-pathname, and

MAKE-PATHNAME will accept "" or NIL for :host to mean a unix-host.
Actually, anything this is not a LISP::HOST type or a non-empty string
is treated as a unix-host.

    james> how does one extract this designation from the host
    james> instance?

I don't think there is any way.  

However I have a patch to make pathname-host return what it's supposed
to, but it needs some clean up first.

Ray



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