Re: DOS drive names

2000-02-09 Thread Marcus G. Daniels


 "AO" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

MD This isn't suitable as a patch

AO But, with your patch, it would say `C:file' is absolute.

Indeed -- just wanted to get the issue and vicinities recorded...



Re: DOS drive names

2000-02-08 Thread Archie Cobbs


Marcus G. Daniels writes:
 This isn't suitable as a patch, but here are two places where
 DOS-style pathnames (C:\path\file) aren't handled, and spooky things
 happen as a result...

Probably the correct way to check for absoluteness is to compare
the start of the string against File.listRoots().  By the way,
this function needs to be properly implemented for Windows systems.

-Archie

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