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(tramp)Localname deconstruction

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Up: Files directories and localnames

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Enter node , (file) or (file)node

Breaking a localname into its components.
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TRAMP file names are somewhat different, obviously, to ordinary file
names. As such, the lisp functions `file-name-directory' and
`file-name-nondirectory' are overridden within the TRAMP package.

   Their replacements are reasonably simplistic in their approach. They
dissect the filename, call the original handler on the localname and
then rebuild the TRAMP file name with the result.

   This allows the platform specific hacks in the original handlers to
take effect while preserving the TRAMP file name information.