FExpand

Expand a relative path to an absolute path

Declaration

Source position: dosh.inc line 117

function FExpand(

const path: PathStr

):PathStr;

Description

FExpand takes its argument and expands it to a complete filename, i.e. a filename starting from the root directory of the current drive, prepended with the drive-letter or volume name (when supported).

Remark:

On case sensitive file systems (such as unix and linux), the resulting name is left as it is, otherwise it is converted to uppercase.

Errors

FSplit

Example

Program Example5;
uses Dos;

{ Program to demonstrate the Exec and DosExitCode function. }

begin
{$IFDEF Unix}
  WriteLn('Executing /bin/ls -la');
  Exec('/bin/ls','-la');
{$ELSE}
  WriteLn('Executing Dir');
  Exec(GetEnv('COMSPEC'),'/C dir');
{$ENDIF}
  WriteLn('Program returned with ExitCode ',Lo(DosExitCode));
end.