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Re: file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:57:13 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
> To me it is a little bit unclear if file-name-directory returns a string
> which is consistent with file-name-as-directory or directory-file name.

Basically, a directory name ends with a / whereas a file name does not.
So file-name-directory returns something that ends in a /.


        Stefan
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