[Python-Dev] Mac hierarchy backwards

[Greg Ewing]

Jack Jansen <jack@oratrix.nl>:

> MacOS (<= 9) itself doesn't have chdir, because it doesn't believe
> in current directories (by design.

Well, it does have an equivalent (HSetVol). But it's not used
much by Mac software because it's usual to work with full file
specifications at all times, at least internally.

>From the user's point of view, the closest thing to a
"current directory" is the way the standard file dialogs
remember which directory you were browsing in last.

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