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[Function]
namestring  pathname ⇒  namestring
file-namestring  pathname ⇒  namestring
directory-namestring  pathname ⇒  namestring
host-namestring  pathname ⇒  namestring
enough-namestring  pathname &optional defaults ⇒  namestring
pathname—a pathname designator.
defaults—a pathname designator.
The default is the value of *default-pathname-defaults*.
namestring—a string or nil.
[Editorial Note by KMP: Under what circumstances can NIL be returned??]
These functions convert pathname into a namestring. The name represented by pathname is returned as a namestring in an implementation-dependent canonical form.
namestring returns the full form of pathname.
file-namestring returns just the name, type, and version components of pathname.
directory-namestring returns the directory name portion.
host-namestring returns the host name.
enough-namestring returns an abbreviated namestring that is just sufficient to identify the file named by pathname when considered relative to the defaults. It is required that
(merge-pathnames (enough-namestring pathname defaults) defaults) ≡ (merge-pathnames (parse-namestring pathname nil defaults) defaults)
in all cases, and the result of enough-namestring is the shortest reasonable string that will satisfy this criterion.
It is not necessarily possible to construct a valid namestring by concatenating some of the three shorter namestrings in some order.
 (namestring "getty")            
⇒  "getty"
 (setq q (make-pathname :host "kathy" 
                         :directory 
                           (pathname-directory *default-pathname-defaults*)
                         :name "getty")) 
⇒  #S(PATHNAME :HOST "kathy" :DEVICE NIL :DIRECTORY directory-name 
       :NAME "getty" :TYPE NIL :VERSION NIL)
 (file-namestring q) ⇒  "getty"
 (directory-namestring q) ⇒  directory-name
 (host-namestring q) ⇒  "kathy" 
 ;;;Using Unix syntax and the wildcard conventions used by the
 ;;;particular version of Unix on which this example was created:
 (namestring
   (translate-pathname "/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l"
                       "/usr/d*/hacks/*.l"
                       "/usr/d*/backup/hacks/backup-*.*"))
⇒  "/usr/dmr/backup/hacks/backup-frob.l"
 (namestring
   (translate-pathname "/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l"
                       "/usr/d*/hacks/fr*.l"
                       "/usr/d*/backup/hacks/backup-*.*"))
⇒  "/usr/dmr/backup/hacks/backup-ob.l"
 ;;;This is similar to the above example but uses two different hosts,
 ;;;U: which is a Unix and V: which is a VMS.  Note the translation
 ;;;of file type and alphabetic case conventions.
 (namestring
   (translate-pathname "U:/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l"
                       "U:/usr/d*/hacks/*.l"
                       "V:SYS$DISK:[D*.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-*.*"))
⇒  "V:SYS$DISK:[DMR.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-FROB.LSP"
 (namestring
   (translate-pathname "U:/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l"
                       "U:/usr/d*/hacks/fr*.l"
                       "V:SYS$DISK:[D*.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-*.*"))
⇒  "V:SYS$DISK:[DMR.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-OB.LSP"
truename , merge-pathnames , pathname, logical-pathname, File System Concepts,
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