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Re: Don't concat directories to file names


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:36 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> Well, in fact I said that the function does not return a directory,
> and that's true, it returns a path.

No: a path is a list of directories (as in the PATH, MANPATH EMACSLOADPATH,
etc...).  What it returns is a file name.  The file referenced may be of
directory kind (or symlink kind, or normal file kind, or even device kind),
but it's still a file name.


        Stefan




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