DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3725>. ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3725 Drive letter required for absolute paths under Windows ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-09-19 11:53 ------- Note that the java.io.File class indeed considers "/public/tomcat4/webapps" to be a non-absolute path, because it is relative to the current drive letter. I don't believe it would be a good idea to make Tomcat vary from the JDK's interpretation of this.