Re: dircat vs. path_concat

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

begin  "John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>was the difference between dircat and path_concat? Why is path_concat
>>very rarely used in jed?
>
> dircat existed in jed long before path_concat was introduced as a
> slang intrinsic.  On Unix and DOS/Windows dircat should work the same
> as path_concat; however, on VMS I am sure that dircat is smarter than
> path_concat.  For this reason, I prefer to use dircat.

And why not fix path_concat for slang only scripts?

end.
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