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Pathnames
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Pathnames give the way to analyze and compose file names OS-independently.
A typical path name is assumed to be consisted of following components:
host:device/directory1/.../directory-n/name.type.version.
Since EusLisp only runs on Unix, host, device and version fields are ignored.
The <B>pathname</B> function decomposes a st