Bug in fullfile on windows

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Feb-2008, Bovey, Richard (UK) wrote:

| I think I have identified a bug in fullfile. Unfortunately bug_report()
| did not work on my windows system.
|  
| The bug is that fullfile() fails this test:
|  
| assert (fullfile (filesep (), "foo"), strcat(filesep (),"foo"))
|  
| The bug causes a problem in that it fails to create a directory with the
| following call on windows XP
|  
| mkdir(fullfile('\','folder'))
|  
| However either of the following calls work
|  
| mkdir('\folder')
| mkdir(fullfile('\folder'))
|  
| Please find attached a modified fullfile.m which includes a fix and the
| additional new test.

I used the following change instead.  Does this also solve the problem
for you?

Since you didn't send a diff, I'm assuming you aldo don't have a patch
program, so I'm also attaching the complete modified file.

Thanks,

jwe

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