<div dir="ltr">Thanks - that helped me deal with this issue. <div><br></div><div>Once I knew what to google, I even found the documentation:</div><div><a href="http://ccl.clozure.com/manual/chapter4.6.html">http://ccl.clozure.com/manual/chapter4.6.html</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Zach Beane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xach@xach.com" target="_blank">xach@xach.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Mirko Vukovic <<a href="mailto:mirko.vukovic@gmail.com">mirko.vukovic@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> Doing (make-pathname :name "x.1") gives #P"x>.1"<br>
><br>
> On clisp and sbcl I get #P"x.1"<br>
><br>
> I am merging components to generate a name such as #P".../name.1.type" that<br>
> is needed by an external application.<br>
<br>
</div></div>The syntax of a namestring is implementation-dependent.<br>
<br>
If you want a string representing the file's name to give to an external<br>
application or API, you can get it on CCL via<br>
CCL:NATIVE-TRANSLATED-NAMESTRING.<br>
<br>
On SBCL, you can use SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Zach<br>
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