Re: [Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org>] Re: [Success] XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence (RC2 Windows)", i586-pc-win32

Oh, BTW, here's the docs I'm basing my guesses on. Andy> I guess my question is, what is: file-truename("c:\\*.txt") Andy> supposed to do? Is it documented? The documentation says `file-truename' is a built-in function (file-truename FILENAME &optional DEFAULT) Documentation: Return the canonical name of FILENAME. Second arg DEFAULT is directory to start with if FILENAME is relative (does not start with slash); if DEFAULT is nil or missing, the current buffer's value of `default-directory' is used. No component of the resulting pathname will be a symbolic link, as in the realpath() function. realpath(3) DESCRIPTION realpath expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', '/../' and extra '/' characters in the null terminated string named by path and stores the canonicalized absolute pathname in the buffer of size PATH_MAX named by resolved_path. The resulting path will have no symbolic link, '/./' or '/../' components. On Unix, (file-truename "/*.txt") returns "/*.txt". I believe this is correct. There is no requirement that the path name a unique existing file, and it definitely doesn't say anything about expanding globs. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py