>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
Richard> there is an ANSI common lisp pathname search mechanism already.
Richard> Can that be used?
None that I'm aware of. CMUCL has the concept of search-lists which
look somewhat like ANSI logical pathnames. Associated with each host
is a list of pathnames and files are searched in order. Basically,
like the shell PATH variable.
Could, perhaps, borrow this from CMUCL, depending on how tightly
coupled it is with the rest of the pathname stuff.
But maxima has it's own file search mechanism, which is probably
adequate.
Ray