RE: file-truename, convert-standard-filename

[Drew Adams]

> You never apply convert-standard-filename to the name of an existing
> file, since by definition this file name already fits the current OS
> (otherwise it would not exist).

Which would not exist - the file or the file name?

How to know whether the name is for an existing file? Are you suggesting testing
it first using `file-exists-p', just to know whether to call c-s-f?

In the comparison I'm doing, I don't know what the file names to be compared
will be. I don't know whether they will correspond to existing files. I want to
compare the names without trying to access the files (or even call
`file-exists-p').

Sorry, I still don't quite understand.