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Subject: new library function abs2rel and rel2abs
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>Number:         5531
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [SUBMISSION] new library function abs2rel and rel2abs.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 20 08:00:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jun 5 11:08:58 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar 29 02:40:01 PST 2002
>Originator:     Shigio Yamaguchi
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
freelance programmer
>Environment:

>Description:

This is a library for C language, which operates path strings.
It includes two functions.

o abs2rel: make a relative path name from an absolute path name

  abs2rel(<original path name>, <base directory>, <result>, <size of result>);

	INPUT                   INPUT                   OUTPUT
	<original path name>    <base directory>        <result>
	/usr/src                /etc                    ../usr/src


o rel2abs: make an absolute path name from a relative path name

  rel2abs(<original path name>, <base directory>, <result>, <size of result>);

	INPUT                   INPUT                   OUTPUT
	<original path name>    <base directory>        <result>
	../usr/src              /etc                    /usr/src

A sample application 'lndir' for abs2rel is available.
This command is derived from X11 and slightly modified to generate relative
symbolic link. See example/README.

>How-To-Repeat:

I put pathconvert archive as
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/pathconvert-a3.tar.gz

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 30 23:10:05 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
awaiting committer 
this should probably go in libutil 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 5 11:08:58 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
patch gone from posted url. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=5531 

From: "Shigio Yamaguchi" <shigio@tamacom.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: shigio@tamacom.com
Subject: Re: misc/5531: [SUBMISSION] new library function abs2rel and rel2abs.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:32:48 +0900

 > patch gone from posted url.
 
 Here you are.
 
 http://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert/pathconvert.tar.gz
 --
 Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation
 
>Unformatted:
