[armedbear-devel] #P serialization across Windows/non-Windows

[Mark Evenson]

Attached is a patch that (partially) normalizes the Pathname
namestring across all platforms to only contain '/' characters as
the directory separators, which is my preferred way to solve the
portability problem for pathname serialization.  Feeding '\' separated
paths to Pathname still seems to work.

This work needs:

1.  Agreement from others (Alessio, Erik?) that this is the "right"
way to solve the problem

2.  The MAKE-LOAD-FORM seems to be dumping the Windows version of
the path, which means the code is not finished.

3.  A convenience function to return the '\' separated form for use
under Windows.

--
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