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Re: file-truename, convert-standard-filename


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: file-truename, convert-standard-filename
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:15:50 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> It's not clear to me when to use `file-truename' and
> `convert-standard-filename'.

You never apply convert-standard-filename to the name of an existing
file, since by definition this file name already fits the current OS
(otherwise it would not exist).

Andreas.

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