Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question: why do we attempt to generate absolute paths and > such and CWD to those, instead of just doing the portable > string-of-CWDs to get where we need to be?
I think the original reason was that absolute paths allow crossing from any directory to any other directory without using "..". This is needed by the recursive download code, which downloads from multiple directories. I agree that string-of-CWDs would be better than the current solution.