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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: expand-file-name
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Date: 15 Mar 89 20:49:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: lord+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Lord)

In article <wY7QTSy00jaIQG_ERv@andrew.cmu.edu>, lord+@ANDREW (Tom Lord) writes:
>In 18.52, expand-file-name does not handle trailing /'s properly.
>
>(not (string= (expand-file-name "/usr") (expand-file-name "/usr/")))

What would be "proper", adding or stripping the last "/"?  In some
places (say, find-file) the trailing slash makes a difference.  I am
not sure this is a bug at all!
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