Ian
Thanks. This should be fixed in the latest base library 9.4.3.
Chris
On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 10:30 PM 'Ian Shannon' via General
wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> I have just copied in Ewart Shaw's utilities, and tried to combine his path
> names with my directory structure.
>
> The system utility jpath resolves names starting with tilde (~) according
> to SystemFolders_j_ and UserFolders_j_
>
> This uses the case of the first letter of Name to select which of these 2
> nouns to use.
>
> Because jpath is potentially recursive, ~name1 can refer to ~name0 and ~name
> 2 can refer to ~name1 and the names get resolved without issue.
>
> EXCEPT that in the construction of UserFolders_j_ (in
> ~system/utils/configure.ijs) the verb filecase is called before the jpath
> resolution occurs.
>
> Verb filecase ensures that file name are correctly handled for the
> various file systems and mostly returns a lowercase of its argument. But it
> becomes problematic when applied to that part of a file name which may
> require resolution by jpath and has capital letters in the name.
>
> There is added complications that jpath uses SystemFolders_j_ and
> UserFolders_j_ in name resolution, but it is called in configure.ijs which
> constructs both of these nouns!
>
> Changing the expression
>
> jpath each filecase each
>
> into
>
> filecase each jpath each
>
> inside configure.ijs may fix this issue, but could potentially break some
> other pre-existing code.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
> Ian Shannon
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