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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!apple!apple!cambridge.apple.com!cfry@MIT.EDU
  2. From: cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
  4. Subject: Re:  Logical pathname bug?
  5. Message-ID: <9211210055.AA21178@MIT.EDU>
  6. Date: 21 Nov 92 00:45:04 GMT
  7. Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
  8. Lines: 23
  9. Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
  10. Original-To: "Mark A. Tapia" <markt@dgp.toronto.edu>
  11. Original-Cc: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
  12.  
  13. Thanks forthe logical pathname tutorial.
  14. Definitly FAQ material.
  15.  
  16. From your message:
  17.   Here is the replacement in MCL final which uses logical hosts:
  18.     (setf (logical-pathname-translations "mcl")
  19.           (list (list "mcl:**;*.*"
  20.                       (full-pathname
  21.                         "ccl:**;*.*")))
  22.  
  23.     (setf (logical-pathname-translations "Utilities")
  24.           (list (list "Utilities:**;*.*"
  25.                       (full-pathname
  26.                         "mcl:utilities;**;*.*"))))
  27.  
  28.  
  29. The first arg to logical-pathname-translations, according to
  30. CLtL2 is a "host".
  31. In your example, I can almost believe mcl is a host, but
  32. no way can "Utilities" meet my notion of a "host".
  33. If the way you describe it is in fact how it works, CL2
  34. has sure made the concepts difficult by the misleading 
  35. terminology.
  36.