Re: [MACTCL] BUG: file join ?

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 9:01 +0100 on 12/3/02, AO...@t-... wrote:

>this is an absolut path name not relative

no relative

c.f. man n filename

you should use [file join {} a b] to get consistent results, if a 
user has a volume named 'a', [file join a b] will give a:b and not 
:a:b like you might expect. (the behaviour [file join a b] => :a:b is 
a unix compatibility hack since so many scripts use it, but it's not 
guaranteed...)

the correct crossplatform way to construct a relative path to 
directory/file 'a' is [file join {} a] (or using [pwd])

Cheers,

Daniel
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