"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> A path on windows that starts with '/' is a set
>> of instructions which begins: "go to the root of the current
>> directory path".
>
> Correction. It does not mean that. It means go to the root directory of the
> current drive. 

Is the current drive not the same as the root of the current
directory?  AFAICT, they are locked together.  IOW, I think we were
saying the same thing.  I just wanted to additionally make it clear
that even these paths are, in a sense, relative to the current
directory.


-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

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