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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: 'expand-file-name' handling '..' expansion improperly in GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <1460@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 21:18:30 GMT
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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I use GNU Emacs 18.52 with Leonard Zubkoff's Apollo extensions but I see
this faulty behavior on non-extended versions of GNU Emacs also.

The following expression:

(expand-file-name "/usr/../usr/bin")

expands to:

"//usr/bin"

rather than "/usr/bin".  This causes dired on a number of directories to
fail.  Is this a bug?  Does anyone have a patch for the complicated
"expand-file-name" code?

Any help is appreciated.
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