On Thu, 14 May 1998, Gerald Young wrote: >However, consider this "A/../B/doc" could be parsed syntactially >resulting in "B/doc" Not necessarily. "Directory A" could actually be a link (an "alias" in Mac terminology) to another directory, so that "A/.." could point to a different directory altogether. Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch