From ruby-talk  Wed Dec 22 02:08:22 2010
From: Ken Bloom <kbloom () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:08:22 +0000
To: ruby-talk
Subject: Re: FileTest.relative?
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:06:04 +0900, Intransition wrote:

> On Dec 21, 6:52 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your code is not contemplating drive letters.
> 
> Good point.


On Windows, a path without a drive letter that only starts in a single 
backslash would be relative (becuase it's relative to the current drive 
letter.) A double backslash would be an absolute UNC name.


-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/