> OK, its path time, again. > > I know that absolute paths are "evil" (Joe's trademark?).
So use relative paths instead :) Unix style. Relative paths, unlike aliases, work across downloads, copies, disks. Let's say I copy some folders from one disk to another. Relative paths still work. Aliases don't. Relative paths are clearly superior to aliases. And they can be stored as strings, which is handy. > But, suppose you are doing something like saving recent document > paths. > How do you do it? An array of "Children" from the root volume? A shell > path? An absolute path? It is a frequent enough requirement that there > must be some acceptable standard way to do it. Xplat of course! -- http://elfdata.com/plugin/ "String processing, done right" _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
