The treatment of a:/foo in cgf's sandbox

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:56:53PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> As it turns out, it is moderately hard to get the DLL to do something like
>> 'Treat a:/foo' as ./a:/foo in certain directories'.  So, for now, I've
>> fallen back to requiring that if you want to reference something that
>> looks like a drive in the current directory, you have to prefix the
>> path with ./.  That means that a:/ still has its usual meaning.
>>
>> This actually feels right to me.  I wasn't wild about the fact that you
>> couldn't access the a: drive via MS-DOS syntax in "special" directories.
>
>This is cool! Although straying, this now give's me proper-looking Maildir's :-)
>
>Is this in the uberbaum repo? :-)

Not yet.  I'm still debating with myself on whether this is 1.5.0
material or not.

I guess I could check it in and not advertise it too heavily.

cgf