System.FilePath.joinDrive problem

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 16:21:43 EDT 2007


Hello Twan,

Saturday, November 3, 2007, 10:48:12 PM, you wrote:

> This behaviour is at the very least unintuitive.

it was in dos for 23 years, so it is well known and used by all
utilities:

D:\temp\8> c:

C:\Haskell\docs> dir d:
 Contents of directory D:\temp\8

31.10.2007  12:41    <DIR>          .
31.10.2007  12:41    <DIR>          ..
30.10.2007  23:58    <DIR>          1
15.04.2005  19:31                24 compile.btm

C:\Haskell\docs> zip archive d:compile.btm
  adding: compile.btm (188 bytes security) (stored 0%)

C:\Haskell\docs>


> I have investigated what some different platforms do:
>   - Win32: PathAppend           gives "C:\File"

what documentation on this function says?

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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