Hi Rob,

Welcome!

2013/4/3 <sales.creditscore@creditscore.co.nz>

Never thought of just typing the function straight into the interpreter :-| Anyway this is what it produces.

"C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0\\local\\Gambit-C\\bin"

That's the serialized form, for seeing a verbatim copy of the string content:

> (print (current-directory) "\n")
C:\Program Files\Gambit-C\v4.6.6\bin\

..or in pieces..

> (string->list (current-directory))

(#\C
#\:
#\\
#\P
#\r
#\o
#\g
#\r
#\a
#\m
#\space
#\F
#\i
#\l
#\e

#\s
#\\
#\G
#\a
#\m
#\b
#\i
#\t
#\-
#\C
#\\
#\v
#\4
#\.
#\6

#\.
#\6
#\\
#\b
#\i
#\n
#\\)

In the code in your previous email, you can leave object->string out as what you want right there is a verbatim copy of the string's content, and not what that procedure produces, which is a serialization though with a string as output rather than the console (as you showed an example of above).

Brgds