From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-09-08T20:42:22+09:00
Subject: File, relative path handling.

Before I attempt to re-invent this wheel:
Has anyone come up with a method for converting an absolute
filesystem path into a relative path, given the path to relate to?
Pruning off the front is relatively easy, but handling '../'
correctly is likely to be error prone.  Given that I need to cope
with Ruby 1.6 and 1.8 at the moment, and I will need to do something
graceful if the paths are on different Windows drives, well, I
suspect someone has run into this before me.

I need relative paths so I can move between data sets for testing
and between machines as well.

        Thank you,
        Hugh