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J Krugman wrote:
 > It looks like Emacs 21.2.1 does not resolve properly pathnames that
 > include components of the form "<unix_symlink>/../".  Is this a
 > bug or a feature?

It depends.  What exactly did you do, how exactly did Emacs respond, and
what exactly did you want/expect Emacs to do?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers