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When printer escaping is enabled,
the syntax #P"..." is how a pathname is printed by write and the other functions herein described. The "..." is the namestring representation of the pathname.
When printer escaping is disabled,
write writes a pathname P by writing (namestring P) instead.
For information on how the Lisp reader parses pathnames, see Sharpsign P.