Re: trouble writing to files with names beginning with .

From: Adam Warner (usenet_at_consulting.net.nz)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:54:19 +1300

Hi Lowell,

>> It certainly looks like a bug to me (I just tried it in clisp 2.28).
>> Did you report it the maintainers of clisp? What did they say?

> Nope, I don't have enough lisp experience to know whether it's really a
> bug or just a lack of understanding on my part. Are we sure it's a bug?

[Adjusted reply to indicate context]

It's a bug.

Common Lisp programs should be able to refer to _filenames_ in a
non-portable, operating system specific way. They are accessed as
"physical pathnames", which by definition are not "logical pathnames".
Logical pathnames use a namestring syntax that is
implementation-independent, and that has component values that are
implementation-independent.

Start with the ANSI Common Lisp glossary for more information.

Regards,
Adam