[ENH] UnixFileDirectory tweak

Joshua Gargus gargus at cs.ualberta.ca
Thu Dec 16 20:40:53 UTC 1999


On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 11:57:53AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Joshua Gargus wrote:
> 
> > While playing around with Alice, I became annoyed that I had to 
> > type in the full pathname to model files, when 'alice/Vehicles/model.mdl'
> > would be sufficient to find the file from the directory with my image.
> > 
> > The following changeset allows the use of relative pathnames.  I have 
> > included it in the body of the message, as well as as an attachment.
> 
> This sounds okay (although "FileStream fileNamed: relativePath" did
> already work, on Linux at least).

You learn something new every day.  I didn't know this existed.  Thanks.

> But why would you limit this to Unix? 

Because I am not familar with the way that Windows would want to handle
this, and I haven't booted into the MacOS for months.

Thanks for your suggestions.  I'll see if I can't change the Wonderland
code to allow relative pathname instead of changing UnixFileDirectory.

Josh

> 
>   -Bert-





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