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2. Re: How to get full path...

• Posted by Craig <cgilbert at CENNET.MC.PEACHNET.EDU> Mar 09, 1997
• 995 views

Lee woo seob  wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Does anyone know how to get "full complete file path string" from the
> "not-full" path given by user?
> For example, Let's assume we have a kind of text viewer, named "eulist.exe",
> and the user may give the text file to view to the program in a various way as
;
>
> ex)
> 1) eulist xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
> 2) eulist ..\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in parent directory
> 3) eulist .\xxx.doc  -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
> 4) eulist \xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in a root directory of current drive
> 5) eulist nowdir\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists sub-directory nowdir of the current
>                             directory.
> There can be many other ways to specifiy the location of the file...
>
> Is there any way to get the "full file path string" like
> "c:\text\docs\xxx.doc"(begins from drive letter and ends by the file name),
> from "not-full" ones as above exams?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> bye -- from Lee, woo seob

Try David Cuny's text gui library;  I believe there is a routine for
exactly that situation somewhere in the file 'files.e', named
full_path().


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J. Craig Gilbert
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"Positing infinity, the rest is easy."
Roger Zelazny, in
'Creatures of Light and Darkness'
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