Re: Api for relative path to absolute path

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at the IFS APIs (under Unix-type). Some use a pathname
structure type  that incudes the separator. They usually start with Qpol*,
and getcwd() gives you the current directory, which you prepend to the
relative object name.

At 06:16 PM 8/15/02 +1000, you wrote:
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>Does anyone know of an api that will convert a relative-path to an
>absolute-path. Preferably it would support (by expanding/converting)
>directives such as '\'  '~/'  '~\'  '~userprf/' etc supported by IBM command
>processor but not by IBM IFS/Unix APIs.
>
>Rod Orr