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As I discussed in the previous chapter, Common Lisp provides an abstraction, the pathname, that’s supposed to insulate you from the details of how different operating systems and file systems name files. Pathnames provide a useful API for manipulating names as names, but when it comes to the functions that actually interact with the file system, things get a bit hairy.
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Seibel, P. (2005). Practical: A Portable Pathname Library. In: Practical Common Lisp. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0017-8_15
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