Jeanne,
Thanks, I knew it didn't work for me saving a stack in the relative path but
wasn't sure if it was indeed an error.

-cw

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeanne A.
> E. DeVoto
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 7:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Documentation Error?
>
>
> At 3:33 PM -0800 4/6/2002, Chipp Walters wrote:
> >It looks to me like there may be an error on the save command. It says:
> >
> >save stack "Treats" as "/Disk/Folder/File"
> >
> >and I think it should read: (note the missing prevailing "/")
> >
> >save stack "Treats" as "Disk/Folder/File"
>
> No, this is correct. A path that starts with a "/" is an absolute path -
> that is, its first component is a disk (actually volume, to get technical)
> name.
>
> Suppose you have a disk called "Disk", which contains a file
> called "File".
> In this case, the path "/Disk/File" means a file at the top level of that
> disk. Without the leading slash, the path "Disk/File" means a file called
> "File", inside a folder called "Disk" that's in the defaultFolder.
>
> If you're specifying an absolute pathname, rather than one that's relative
> to the current defaultFolder, you need the leading slash.
>
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