Re: [AD] Some more features for platform-independent file system?

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On 2002-04-02, Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Following a couple of ideas on the development board on allegro.cc 
> (probably http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=176192 ), I 
> propose we add the following features to our file functions:

Please, no.  Allegro already does too much mangling of pathnames
already (Unicode foo).  DJGPP has similar weird path stuff (/dev
emulation) which ended up needing to be addressed in their FAQ.
IMHO the less we do with regards to interpreting paths, the better.



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