Hi,

* Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52):
>Thorsten Haude wrote:
>>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up
>>before in other applications?
>
>I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. 
>Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS 
>know what it is they are trying to do.

The path is also displayed at various places. The user might be
surprised to see surplus slashes.


Thorsten
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