Hello Sören,
> From Soren A
> What you expected File::Spec to do perhaps seemed intuitive and
> natural,
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"Least surprise' is a valuable design principle. I try to design things
knowing that 2-3 months from now I'll likely have forgotten all the details of
why I did something a certai
This may be somewhat arcane/tedious, but...
> > But Unix does have a concept of a mount point (device) and
> > path from the mount point. Conceivably, one could view the mount
> > point itself as a local host name for the "volume" (local,
> remote or a
> > device) with path being loca
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:59:49 GMT, Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:36:58 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>> Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of
>>> volume. Everything exce
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:36:58 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of
>> volume. Everything except network paths (//host/dir) are
>> based on a single root directory.
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> But Unix does have a concept of a mount point
> Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of
> volume. Everything except network paths (//host/dir) are
> based on a single root directory.
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But Unix does have a concept of a mount point (device) and
path from the mount point. Conceivably, one could view the
mount poi
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:27:50 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> File::Spec is supposed to provide a OS independent way of parsing and
> creating pathnames. For example, a 'splitpath' can product a volume
> $dir and $file.
Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of v
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:27:50 GMT, "linda w \(cyg\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in 001b01c2a86e$a5da95f0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:001b01c2a86e$a5da95f0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> File::Spec is supposed to provide a OS independent way of parsing and
> creating pathnames. For example, a 'splitpath' can pr
File::Spec is supposed to provide a OS independent way of parsing and
creating pathnames. For example, a 'splitpath' can product a volume
$dir and $file.
I'm not sure what constitutes a volume but I'd think C: D: would count
as separate.
Under cygwin, it only handles/parses unix pathnames but
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