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From: greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Is there a routine to generate full-path names?
Message-ID: <1271.AA1271@noel>
Date: 20 Jan 90 17:05:44 GMT
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I badly need a routine that will convert an arbitrary path name into its
equivalent full-path name.  That is, I need a routine that will take a
name like "SYS:C" and return "System:1.3/C" if that is where the directory
actually is.  It would be handy if the routine also converted "DF0:name"
into "Volume:name" of the volume currently in DF0, but that's not essential.
The important thing is that the path generated should be rooted a a volume
name, not the device name.

The code for this must exist -- the CLI and shell seem to be capable of doing
it when there's a %S in the prompt string.  It also seems to me that I have
seen a discussion of this before, but in typical fashion, I didn't need it at
the time, so I didn't keep it.

Many thanks,
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-- J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru       greg@noel.cts.com  or  greg@noel.uucp