On Friday, May 27, 2005 10:06 AM Camm Maguire wrote: > ... > probe-file tests whether a file exists. > > probe-file returns false if there is no file named > pathspec, and otherwise returns the truename of pathspec. > > A file here should be sopentheing that could be opened with > (open...) -- we have no such ability currently for directories. > > Is this a problem to follow in mingw?
No it is not a problem. In fact that is exactly what GCL Version_2_6_7pre on Windows does now. > > (probe-file "./") returns nil on Windows with the latest changes. > The problem is in the Axiom source for daase.lisp.pamphlet. > In daase.lisp.pamphlet the "./" is hard wired: > > (localdatabase nil > (list (list '|dir| (namestring (probe-file "./")) )) > 'make-database) > Here Axiom is trying to find the name of the "current" directory which it passes to |dir|. It should probably just call (truename "./"). Or better, perhaps there should be a standard lisp mechanism to do what Axiom's |dir| does. The fact that this code used to work on Axiom is a bit troubling since it makes one wonder where else in Axiom (and maybe other packages like Maxima and ACL) probe-file is used in this now obsolete manner? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
