Methods to redo book

Steve Rickaby srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 14 03:07:08 PDT 2011


At 19:37 -0700 13/3/11, Les Smalley wrote:

>aside: FM understands more of the path data than just the current ('dot') or parent ('dot-dot') directory... it stores references as relative paths using a unix-like dotted notation unless it crosses a root folder of a drive, then FM switches to an absolute reference (drive & path) notation.  So you can go up four levels and then down a new path  (../../../../dir1/dir2) and FM happily follows along.

Thanks for this clarification, Les... I didn't know that. I'd seen the '.' and '..' in MIFs, and assumed that that was all there was. Duh.

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Steve



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