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Re: Path seperator character

Michael Hall <email@hidden> wrote:

>What I'm finding somewhat odd at the moment is the behavior of
>File("."). Now we were warned in a tech note actually that file handling
>on Classic wasn't _exactly_ Unix. So do not expect correct behavior for
>things like the above. But getting
>/Mac OS 9/Java/Combined/. for new File(".").getAbsolutePath();
>and
>/Mac OS 9/Java/Combined/./ext for new File("./ext").getAbsolutePath();
>is not what I expected the correct Unix based paths to be? Was I
>mistaken that Java would somehow resolve this minus the original '.'s?

File never did that automatically. You need File.getCanonicalPath() to
resolve out all the "." and ".." stuff, along with multiple adjacent
separators, and other chaff.

-- GG



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