Hello there,
I have just copied in Ewart Shaw's utilities, and tried to combine his path
names with my directory structure.
The system utility jpath resolves names starting with tilde (~) according to
SystemFolders_j_ and UserFolders_j_
This uses the case of the first letter of Name to select which of these 2 nouns
to use.
Because jpath is potentially recursive, ~name1 can refer to ~name0 and ~name 2
can refer to ~name1 and the names get resolved without issue.
EXCEPT that in the construction of UserFolders_j_ (in
~system/utils/configure.ijs) the verb filecase is called before the jpath
resolution occurs.
Verb filecase ensures that file name are correctly handled for the various
file systems and mostly returns a lowercase of its argument. But it becomes
problematic when applied to that part of a file name which may require
resolution by jpath and has capital letters in the name.
There is added complications that jpath uses SystemFolders_j_ and
UserFolders_j_ in name resolution, but it is called in configure.ijs which
constructs both of these nouns!
Changing the expression
jpath each filecase each
into
filecase each jpath each
inside configure.ijs may fix this issue, but could potentially break some
other pre-existing code.
Regards,
Ian
Ian Shannon
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