Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/26/02:55:14
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dim Zegebart wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:
> >
> > It is NOT undocumented. The docs says that the drive letter is
> > prepended, so the length is not preserved. It should have said that the
> > current directory is also added.
>
> Perhaps, my english is a problem :( Here is part of info file with
> description of
> _fixpath function, I can't see any words about adding full path of
> WORKING directory to the file name :
I said that the docs says the *drive letter* is prepended, and that it
*should have* said about the current directory. Here's the relevant part:
> ".." components, adding a drive specifier if needed, and converting all
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Since it adds the drive letter, you can't assume the length of the result
is the same. The fact that it doesn't tell about prepending the
directory is IMHO a docs bug.
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