Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:11:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> do you plan to support the realpath() function?

Nobody asked for it until now (personally, I didn't even know such a
function existed on Unix platforms).

It should be easy to add a simple wrapper around _fixpath.  Volunteers
are welcome ;-)

> AFAICS, the _fixpath() function is functionally
> mostly equivalent, but the underscore suggests that it's not meant
> for use from normal programs!?

The underscore simply means that the name is not in any standard.  A
library is allowed to use such names without caring about name-space
conflicts.