Re: File::Spec catfile etc.

At 12:02 +0200 2001.09.15, Bart Lateur wrote:
>p.s. WRT to what C.Nandor wrote: how would you even recognize a volume
>name on a Mac? After all, it looks just like any other filename.

The standard we are following is that anything that contains a ":" but does
not begin with a ":" is assumed to be absolute.  "foo" is relative,
"foo:bar" is absolute, "foo:" is absolute, ":foo:bar" and ":foo:" are
obviously relative.

This is, as I understand it, the proper way to do things.  Examples:

cd Bird
### directory - Unable to set current directory.
# Directory not found (OS error -120)
(fails)

cd Bird:
(succeeds)

cd tmp:perl
### directory - Unable to set current directory.
# Specified volume doesn't exist (OS error -35)
(fails)

cd :tmp:perl
(succeeds)

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