On Sun, 18 May 2014 17:42:26 -0700, Ron Garret wrote: > Is there a CCL function (or a unix system call) that given the argument > “/path/relative-symlink” will return the string “../foo”? Osicat has a read-link function: http://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/manual/osicat.html#Files-and- Symbolic-Links Regards, max