Create Instance throws exception when Java Project located on network drive

[Mark Evenson]

> On 02 Jul 2015, at 15:09, Hamda binte Ajmal <Hamda.binte.ajmal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If the java project that is using ABCL is located on a network drive, 
> Method Create isntance throws this exception:
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: 
> org.armedbear.lisp.Nil cannot be cast to org.armedbear.lisp.Pathname
> 	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:329)
> 	at 
> org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.initializeLisp(Interpreter.java:172)
> 	at 
> org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.createInstance(Interpreter.java:72)
> .......
> 
> 
> I believe this has something to do with the the path.
> (path \\fs2\14233205\NetBeansProjects\HamdaBinteAjmal-interface-
> 1ed1d2022f90 )
> Please note that both the abcl.jar and the java project are located on a 
> network drive.
> 
> Anyway to resolve this?

UNC pathnames under Windows should work:  we use them daily in production.

What are the values for LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION for you?

Could you please refactor this to a reproducible test case outside of your code?

Try to see if something like

	(pathname “//fs2/14233205/path/to/some/file”)

fails and report the full stack trace (at least to the point that it resolves back
into Lisp calls).