Arguments and Values

pathspec	a logical pathname, a logical pathname namestring, or a stream.
logical-pathname	a logical pathname.

Description

logical-pathname converts pathspec to a logical pathname and returns the new logical pathname. If pathspec is a logical pathname namestring, it should contain a host component and its following colon. If pathspec is a stream, it should be one for which pathname returns a logical pathname.

If pathspec is a stream, the stream can be either open or closed. logical-pathname returns the same logical pathname after a file is closed as it did when the file was open.

It is an error if pathspec is a stream that is created with make-two-way-stream, make-echo-stream, make-broadcast-stream, make-concatenated-stream, make-string-input-stream, or make-string-output-stream.

Exceptional Situations

Signals an error of type type-error if pathspec isn’t supplied correctly.

See Also

logical-pathname, translate-logical-pathname, Logical Pathnames

Backlinks

compile-file-pathname, compile-file, delete-file, directory, ed, file-author, Filenames Dictionary, Integrating Types and Classes, load-logical-pathname-translations, load, logical-pathname-translations, logical-pathname, make-pathname, merge-pathnames, namestring, file-namestring, directory-namestring, host-namestring, enough-namestring, open, parse-namestring, pathname-host, pathname-device, pathname-directory, pathname-name, pathname-type, pathname-version, pathname-match-p, pathname, probe-file, rename-file, Stream Arguments to Standardized Functions, Symbols in the COMMON-LISP Package, translate-logical-pathname, translate-pathname, truename, Type Specifiers, wild-pathname-p, with-open-file