the only issue for me is how i round-trip these through file urls. in which case knowing i just supply nil is fine.
Raymond Toy wrote: > > >>>>> "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
