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expand-file-name BUG?

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From: Andy Norman
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:11
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GNU Emacs version: 18.58
Hardware: HP9000/425s
OS: HP-UX 7.05

It may be a bug or a feature.  The Emacs lisp expression:

  (expand-file-name "/.")

evaluates to the empty string "".

I would have expected either "/" or "/.".

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From: ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Andy Norman)
Subject: expand-file-name BUG?
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