[Ecls-list] Xmas fixes

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 06:24 America/New_York, Juan Jose 
Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> Finally the Xmas were more distracting than I hoped, and some issues 
> raised
> about pathnames made me forget some more appealing projects. These are 
> the
> changes to ECL after these weeks (available in CVS):
>
> + Fixes in the routines that deal with pathnames and access the 
> filesystem:
> they now merge all pathnames with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* and thus 
> it is
> possible to use this variable as a sort of lisp current working 
> directory.
>
> + New function SI::GETCWD returns the current working directory of the 
> C
> library.

Is this exported or not?  Doe it return a pathname?



>
> + SI::CHDIR now takes a boolean as a second argument:
> 	(SI::CHDIR new-directory &optional update-d-p-d)
> If update-d-p-d is true, then *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* takes is set 
> to the
> truename of the new working directory.

Same here.  Is it exported?

Cheers

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