Absolute File Paths - Bug or bad Docs

[Thomas McGrath III]

Wait, You have a shed!

Tom McGrath
On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>>
> Sorry, you mean OSX not Mac OS 9. I've just checked, my reference to  
> the HD
> being partitioned is incorrect, well only slightly if you consider a  
> normal
> HD is a single partition. On OSX for an absolute path you can use  
> either
> "/volumes/mac hd/Applications" or "/Applications" - but you can't  
> use "/mac
> hd/Applications".  What is important is that both what the Docs say,  
> and the
> examples they give are incorrect for OSX, but as Sarah has pointed  
> out they
> are correct if you are dealing with the old Classic Mac OS. No idea  
> for Win
> or Linux.
>
> Just thought this would have been picked up earlier - I'm not the  
> sharpest
> tool in the shed;-)