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Re: relative path from one absolute path to another? [message #49713 is a reply to message #49680]

Thu, 10 August 2006 15:33

JD Smith
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On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:17:15 -0400, Craig Markwardt wrote:
> JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes:
>> Does it work for Windows paths (with c:\foo or \\host\foo)?
>
> Sure. Of course, if the drive letter is different, there is no
> possible relative path.

So you explicitly test for and separate out the drive letter and then
prepend it later? I didn't see where you do this (and I don't have any
Windows IDL at hand to test these things).

> Regarding links and FILE_SAME(), I didn't assume the directories
> actually exist on disk. In my case, sometimes the relative path is
> devised before the tree exists, so that assumption would have failed.

It's not a problem, because FILE_SAME returns true if the two files are
lexically identical, even if they don't exist, so you get the best of both
worlds.

JD

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