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<br>Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:<br>> If you bang a [dirpanel] and browse for a directory in Windows, if you <br>> select any folder that is not the root of a disk, you get:<br>> <br>> symbol X:/path/to/the/folder<br>> <br>> NOT ending with slash.<br>> <br>> However, if you select the root of drive X, you get:<br>> <br>> X:/<br>> <br>> WITH the ending slash.<br>> <br>> Isn't this inconsistent? Shouldn't the output either always or never <br>> include the ending slash? (I don't know which of the two would be better).<br>> <br><br>The pathname of the root directory is "/" so it is actually a beginning slash, so it's consistent.<br><br>Martin<br><br>                                            </body>
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