DOS drive names

Archie Cobbs archie at whistle.com
Tue Feb 8 09:38:54 PST 2000


Marcus G. Daniels writes:
> This isn't suitable as a patch, but here are two places where
> DOS-style pathnames (C:\path\file) aren't handled, and spooky things
> happen as a result...

Probably the correct way to check for absoluteness is to compare
the start of the string against File.listRoots().  By the way,
this function needs to be properly implemented for Windows systems.

-Archie

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