RE: Api for relative path to absolute path

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Thanks Vernon,

<Rod You don't want to do anything hard, do you?  :-)
not if its been done before . . .  :)

<Does the qp0lGetAttributes() return full path as one of the options? It
<_does_ return a file ID, from which the full path is available with
<qp0lGetPathFromFileID().
spot on, this should solve the absolute path issue

<Seems that QShell special attributes would not be needed outside of QShell.
I wasn't worried about QShell. I just included it for completeness re
different path rules.

<Pathname rules are loosely (?) based on Unix characteristics, seems to me.
. . . .
<Does IFS Concepts have the best description of the rules? I'm not sure.
There are references to Path rules in different places of the info centre.
You have to dig deep. Suffice to say I found it a little imprecise. There
certainly is an "unormalised" path (command parameter) and a "normalised"
path (api parameter). If I can't find an api to do this normalisation I'll
have to write one.

Anyway, when I get this all sorted out I'll post it as commands or
procedures usable from CL.

Rod Orr



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