On 2003-02-27, Shai Bentin wrote: > I joined a development project where they use mainly windows. Some of their > build scripts, and in few places in their code they hardcoded references to a > Z: drive. > Tell the developers that code should not contain hardcoded paths, not even on widnows?
> Is there a way to create such a situation in linux where referencing z: will > work ? (thus, I can't just create a partition/ directory z: because it would > be referenced as /z:/ which is not good). > You can have it in the current directory (relative path); if you have a finite number of directories from which it runs, you can make some symlinks to map z: in all these places to the same dir. Also note that this name might cause problems in some unix contexts where `:' is used as a separator (notably various search pathes). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't like assignments, I like problems. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
