David Abrahams wrote: > "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.
In addition, DOS/Windows has multiple current directories, one per drive. foo - relative /foo - absolute WRT directory, relative WRT drive c:foo - relative WRT directory, absolute WRT drive c:/foo - absolute I agree that it is possible to say that the first three are (partially) relative to the "current path" (the current directory of the current drive.) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
