In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:36:49 -0500, Steven
Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
lembark> This matters on VMS becuase the volume portion can be all
lembark> sorts of things, including search lists, all of which are
lembark> opaque to the caller. This allows me to
lemba
On Feb 9, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Steven Lembark wrote:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but I can't see how an empty
volume name could ever indicate an absolute path.
Because on *NIX you can
join '/', @subdirz;
and get a leading '/'.
That's true, but the confusion here is my fault
-- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>> At 9:56 PM -0600 2/8/06, Ken Williams wrote:
>>> Hi Steven,
>>>
>>> On VMS is 'USER:[SLEMBARK.FINDBIN-LIBS-1_20]' an absolute path, i.e.
>>> is the SLEMBARK directory understood to be at the root o
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but I can't see how an empty
> volume name could ever indicate an absolute path.
Because on *NIX you can
join '/', @subdirz;
and get a leading '/'.
--
Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street
Workhorse Computing
> Perhaps on VMS, splitdir should do the same thing splitpath does and
> return the volume as the first element. I'm concerned about what
> that might break, though.
Catch: the volume is not part of the directory.
If you want to split that off use splitpath.
If the interface were OO then it c
-- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Steven,
>
> On VMS is 'USER:[SLEMBARK.FINDBIN-LIBS-1_20]' an absolute path, i.e. is
> the SLEMBARK directory understood to be at the root of the USER volume?
> If so, probably splitpath() is actually returning the wrong result. On
> other platforms it r
On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
At 9:56 PM -0600 2/8/06, Ken Williams wrote:
Hi Steven,
On VMS is 'USER:[SLEMBARK.FINDBIN-LIBS-1_20]' an absolute path, i.e.
is the SLEMBARK directory understood to be at the root of the USER
volume?
Yes. You would not see the volume name
At 9:56 PM -0600 2/8/06, Ken Williams wrote:
>Hi Steven,
>
>On VMS is 'USER:[SLEMBARK.FINDBIN-LIBS-1_20]' an absolute path, i.e. is the
>SLEMBARK directory understood to be at the root of the USER volume?
Yes. You would not see the volume name if it weren't an absolute path.
>If so, probably s
Hi Steven,
On VMS is 'USER:[SLEMBARK.FINDBIN-LIBS-1_20]' an absolute path, i.e. is
the SLEMBARK directory understood to be at the root of the USER volume?
If so, probably splitpath() is actually returning the wrong result.
On other platforms it returns an initial empty string to indicate an
