Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:53:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dim Zegebart <zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru>
cc: DJGPP Mail List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Funny thing with _fixpath
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dim Zegebart wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:
> > 
> > It is NOT undocumented.  The docs says that the drive letter is
> > prepended, so the length is not preserved.  It should have said that the
> > current directory is also added.
> 
> Perhaps, my english is a problem :( Here is part of info file with
> description of
> _fixpath function, I can't see any words about adding full path of
> WORKING directory to the file name :

I said that the docs says the *drive letter* is prepended, and that it
*should have* said about the current directory.  Here's the relevant part: 

> ".." components, adding a drive specifier if needed, and converting all
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Since it adds the drive letter, you can't assume the length of the result 
is the same.  The fact that it doesn't tell about prepending the 
directory is IMHO a docs bug.