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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 19 May 1997 04:02:44 +0200
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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> Having been horribly burned myself by the nil's generated by the
> current behavior, I would vote to change to Hrvoje's behavior,
> backward-incompatible as it might be.  But first we ought to
> convince RMS.  Hrvoje, could you try to do this?

I'll try.

> While you're at it, you could convince him to add (split-string) and
> (locate-file), two functions whose glaring absence has annoyed me
> recently.

`split-string' exists in 19.35, and seems to have the same semantics
as our version.  So, it stays at `parse-colon-path' and `locate-file'.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Oh lord won't you buy me a color TV...

