Pathname bug in Edit 3.0

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From: Alexander Lehmann
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:52

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I ran accross a bug in NS3.0's Edit.

When one tries to open a file that is contained in a directory that is linked
somehow that path gets messed up.

For Example:

% cd /usr/adm
% open daily

leads to an error requester "Can't open file /adm/daily"

however:

% open /usr/adm/daily

works, but the title bar display the name as "/adm/daily".

This seems to be due to the new scheme of displaying names with ~.

Since this is done by other applications as well, maybe this could be a routine
in the shared libraries which could maybe be fixed in the library, but if this
is code that is compiled into the different applications, this is probably to
complicated.

If anyone can point out the location (or name) of this function, I'll try to fix
it.

-- 
Alexander Lehmann                      | "Wopp"
alexlehm@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de|         -  ( THHGTTG Pt.3 )

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