Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Oct 15, 2007 01:45:47 +0200:
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> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Alex Riesen said:
> > > - it is the only OS in the world with multi-root (/a/b/c and /a/b/c
> > >   can be not the same, depending on what current "drive" is)
> > 
> > So what? on Unix "a/b/c" can be not the same.  Both cases are simply not 
> > complete file names, that's all.  No one said there must be a single 
> > root for all volumes, it's the Posix jingoism creeping in again.
> 
> I think Alex means this: you can have C:\a\b\c and D:\a\b\c.  So depending 
> on which drive you are, you mean one or the other.  Just comparing the 
> paths is not enough.

Not really. I meant that "/a/b/c" and "/a/b/c". Note the leading
slash. On windoze it is _NOT_ absolute path. It is relative to the
root of the current drive.

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