--- Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C:\temp>h: > > H:\DBarclay>dir \dbarclay [snip] > Directory of H:\dbarclay [snip] > 04/30/2002 04:21p <DIR> work
To reiterate: You can include the "\" when you're sitting at the "root" -- but if you'd tried to 'cd \work' it wouldn't have worked, unless the Win* OS you're running is from the bizzaro world (which, come to think of it, is kind of a redundancy :) > The pathname "\dbarclay" doesn't always evaluate to the same directory, > so it isn't an absolute pathname, so it must be a relative pathname, > right? I don't know how you have things set up on your machine, so I have no idea how many "dbarclay" directories you have, or how many of them are real vs. virtual, but a relative pathname is defined as any path starting with the name of a directory (ie., not preceded by anything -- not a "/" or a "\" or drive-letter-colon-slash), which is what makes it relative (ie., it's relative to the current directory -- IOW, a sub-directory of the current directory). Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
