Old Mac OS and relative pathnames?

Masato Sumi sumi at seagreen.ocn.ne.jp
Wed Nov 13 05:30:52 UTC 2002


Hi, Konz-san

I thanks for your consideration about Mac platform.

> 1. Should the above work (that is, should it make the directory xxx in
> the default directory)?

I hope so.  I've been also wondering why that did not work and nobody tried
to fix it for long time.

> 2. If it shouldn't work, how should I handle relative path names on
> older Macs?

When xxx is one of the volume names, 'xxx:yyy' should be recognized as full
path name.  But not, that should be ...  Ok, I wrote down my opinion as
Smalltalk code that be attached.

Thanks.
-- 
Masato Sumi

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