Heiko> Is there a system independend way to concatenate directories in the Heiko> XEmacs (eg: (concat-dirs "/usr/local" "man/man1") => Heiko> "/usr/local/man/man1")? Heiko> I'm asking, because I think, that without such a function code like Heiko> the following Heiko> (concat dir1 "/" dir2) Heiko> will break on systems like MSDOS or NT - or is there an automatic Heiko> conversion of pathes from "/usr/local/man/man1" to Heiko> "\usr\local\man\man1" on DOS systems? The startup code uses a function `paths-construct-path' which does this kind of thing. Should it be advertised to be callable for vanilla elisp code? (Until we have proper filename abstractions, that is.) -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla