From: Dorai Sitaram
Subject: simple probe-file question (CLISP)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:27:41 +0000
Message-ID: <93dest$ep0$1@news.gte.com>

How do I probe the existence of a file with 
a leading dot in CLISP?  I.e., the correct
way to say 

(probe-file ".lkj")

?

Thanks.

--d

From: Dorai Sitaram
Subject: Re: simple probe-file question (CLISP)
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:27:52 +0000
Message-ID: <93f3ko$g34$1@news.gte.com>

In article <············@news.gte.com>,
Dorai Sitaram <····@goldshoe.gte.com> wrote:
>
>How do I probe the existence of a file with 
>a leading dot in CLISP?  I.e., the correct
>way to say 
>
>(probe-file ".lkj")

IAII, some experimentation revealed the answer to be

(probe-file (make-pathname :name ".lkj"))

(probe-file ".lkj") works on ACL, but not on
CLISP.

--d