Re: [MacPerl] Porting File::PathConvert

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.02 -0500 1999.02.03, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
>Thanks, you're clearing up a lot of details for me.
>
>Chris Nandor wrote:
>> No.  You'd have to have a root directory to do that.  There is nothing
>> "before" volume1: to go back to.
>
>Thanks! Are there any screwy paths for filenames that have special
>meanings, like 'NUL' or some such?

Not really.  Well, "Dev:" is a special "volume" name in MacPerl (though not
in Mac OS), but I am not sure if you should special case it.


>> >Also, which volume and folder are checked for -e ":file"?
>>
>> The current directory.
>
>Sorry, I should rephrase: is there only one current directory, like in
>most common OSs, or can there be one per volume along with a current
>volume as in DOS/Win32 drive letters? Not that it's actually important,
>I think you got me straghtened out above.

There is only one current directory that MacPerl is aware of.  It starts as
the directory the script resides in, and can be changed with chdir().

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