Bert,

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Stephan Rudlof wrote:
> 
> > this is a fix for very platform specific stuff, so it has to be checked
> > if it works under other platforms as Unix, too.
> 
> Stephan,
> 
> before fixing stuff, you should update to the latest changes. This was
> fixed in #2032 (your latest update seems to be #1974!).

Thank you Bert.

Your changes are much more better than my suggestion.

To my defence:
I have hesitated to update for a while because there were some changes
regarding changesets and isolated projects and I was afraid to get
problems (I'm currently very active with writing drag&drop stuff for the
masses).

No I have updated and hope that all works (made a backup, of course ;-)
).

Another point is that after posting this bugfix my mind continuously
worked and said to me:
- you were to fast;
- this fix is Unix specific, so it had to be in UnixFileDirectory
instead.

My unsure feeling was the reason to post with [FIX?].


BTW: I've found it annoying, that there isn't a - possibly - abstract
class which handles Files and Directories unique and has some tests like
- isExistingFile,
- isExistingDir,
etc. working with the path.
Currently you have to be careful:
If you say FileDirectory on: '/tmp/foo' you get a FileDirectory with
'/tmp' and don't know if 'foo' is a dir or a file.

Greetings,

Stephan

> For a longer
> description, see http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/611.html
> 
> "Change Set:            FileDir-bf
> Date:                   22 March 2000
> Author:                 Bert Freudenberg
> 
> Enforces the absoluteness of FileDirectories for Windows. Also corrects
> FileDirclass>>splitName:to:, for the DOS 'C:' case (which makes the
> specialized fullNameFor: method obsolete) and for the Unix '/foo' case.
> 
> sma added support for Windows UNC names, i.e. \\magus\dev\dir\file.txt"
> 
> -- Bert

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