"David Thielen" <thielen@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:C60C06FF-274A-4046-B140-91ED420F1A88@microsoft.com...
> Hello;
>
> I think it is not possible because x:\data\file.dat may also be
> \\server\share\file.dat where x: is \\server\root. You have no way of
> knowing
> the directory root vs share point to on a server.
>
> --
> thanks - dave
>
>
> "Robert Houben" wrote:
>
>> I want to know that two forms of an absolute filename reference the same
>> file. How would I do this without using interop, or is it even possible?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>>

"Raoul James" wrote:

> I agree that drive mappings can be hard to deal with, but what I'm looking
> for is more things like this:
>
> c:\mydir\myfilename.ext
> \mydir\myfilename.ext
> c:\mydir\myfile~1.ext
>
> Java gives me a way to do this. I can create a file object and ask for the
> canonical name.
>
> I suspect that you're right. Everything I've found suggests that I'll have
> to live without this functionality.
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> "David Thielen" <thielen@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:C60C06FF-274A-4046-B140-91ED420F1A88@microsoft.com...
> > Hello;
> >
> > I think it is not possible because x:\data\file.dat may also be
> > \\server\share\file.dat where x: is \\server\root. You have no way of
> > knowing
> > the directory root vs share point to on a server.
> >
> > --
> > thanks - dave
> >
> >
> > "Robert Houben" wrote:
> >
> >> I want to know that two forms of an absolute filename reference the same
> >> file. How would I do this without using interop, or is it even possible?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>