On 22-Apr-07, at 6:09 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: >> 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.
Relative paths will be just as "bad" as absolute paths ever were for all the same reasons _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
