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- From: straz@cambridge.apple.com (Steve Strassmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: file access FAQ
- Message-ID: <9211191603.AA18457@cambridge.apple.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:04:27 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- >Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 08:40:28 -0600
- >From: David Kieras <kieras@engin.umich.edu>
- >To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
- >Subject: file access FAQ
- >Cc: kieras@engin.umich.edu
- >
- >This should be an FAQ: What's a good way to access files in
- >different directories in MCL, in a way that will not require code
- >changes to run in other CL implementations or on other Macs, and
- >allows some independence of the directory hierarchy?
-
- Use logical pathnames (see page 628 of CLtL2), which MCL 2.0 supports.
-
- If you're using a CL that doesn't support them yet, try
- Mark Kantrowitz's logical pathname utility, available by ftp from CMU
- or on the MCL CD-ROM in "User Contributed Code:Defsystem:Logical Pathnames".
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