Re: parse-namestring and logical pathnames

Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sep 28, 4:37 pm, Richard M Kreuter <kreu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The intent of the lettercase stuff in the pathnames specification
is to let you say

  (make-pathname :name "FOO" :type "LISP" :case :common)

on any Lisp and with any pathname host and get back a pathname that
maps to a filename using the standard file naming conventions of
whatever file system the file happens to be on

Besides, lowercasing in Unix is wrong as the file system is case-
sensitive.

Customary case is meant to be whatever lettercase is normally used in
file names on a file system, not whether the file system is
case-preserving or case-insensitive. The examples in the dictionary
entry for MAKE-PATHNAME shows and the Issue PATHNAME-COMPONENT-CASE
mentions that customary case for Unix is supposed to be lowercase.

--
Richard
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