[Seaside] problem using sub-directories

Colin Putney seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:19:36 -0700


On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 02:49  PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Rob,
>
> This could be a platform problem. I found all sorts of problematic
> things when I ported some code referencing relative directories from
> Windows to Mac Squeak. Turns out that Mac Squeak has no notion of
> relative directories at all - e.g., if there's a name like "foo:bar:baz"
> it will treat it as absolute even if there's no volume called foo. I
> don't know how the behavior is on Unix is but it's definitely something
> to check out.

The difference between paths on Mac and Unix is more than just the path 
separator. "foo:bar:baz" *is* an absolute path. For a relative path use 
":foo:bar:baz".