Re: Simple question about directories

Thank you both, John and Rainer. It turned out that I was
misinterpreting the hyperspec where it says that the directory
component of a pathname can be a string. I thought it could be a
string specifying an os-dependent path, e.g. "/home/alessio/", while
the hyperspec clearly states that strings in the directory component
name "a single level of directory structure". I'll double-read it the
next time :)

Cheers
Alessio



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