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Subject: Re: canonicalize_file_name
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:22:03 -0000
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Thanks guys.

According to something I read on the internet this afternoon

Calling 'canonicalize_file_name(path)' is equivalent to calling
'realpath(path, NULL)'   By a stroke of luck, 'realpath()' is defined in 
cygwin/stdlib.h so maybe I should use that?

John

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