Re: (expand-file-name "/..")

Mats Lidell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Organization The XEmacs Project
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

> file-truename actually follows the path on the device.

I'm confused (and possibly stupid!). (file-truename "/foo/bar/..") gives "/foo" on my system (XEmacs 21.5). I have no "/foo" directory on this machine. So what does "actually follow the path on the device" mean?

Yours
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