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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <870@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 88 17:49:37 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <10580@stb.UUCP> <4660@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <4660@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
> [somebody else writes]
: :Tell you what: You give me a routine that will take two names, one a
: :directory, one a file, and return me a pathname for the file. Handle
: :ending slashes, null directories, assigned devices, assigned directories,
: :files beginning with slashes, etc. AND make it usable in CLI scripts.
: :Then, I will consider the Amiga's file system naming useably clean.
: 
: 	ok
: 
: 	char *foo (char *dir,char *file)
: 	{
: 		/* I assume dir can be extended here */
: 		int  dirlen = strlen(dir);
: 		char lastchar;
: 
: 		if (dirlen) {
: 			lastchar = dir[dirlen-1];
: 			if (lastchar != ':' && lastchar != '/')
: 				strcat(dir,"/");
: 		}
: 		strcat(dir,file);
: 		return dir;
: 	}
: 
: 	It can be much more efficient, but I wrote for clarity.

Then sombody with nothing better to do will come along and do
'foo("df0", "fi");' and get "df0/fi" and start yelling.
The problem is that only the OS knows what are the
legal device names.

Now ARP has exactly such a routine. But I don't know if it will take all
the abuse you can heap on