NAME
    Win32::AbsPath - convert relative to absolute paths

    Version 1.0

SYNOPSIS
     use Win32::AbsPath;
     $path = Win32::AbsPath::Fix '../some\dir\file.doc'
     system("winword $path");

     use Win32::AbsPath qw(Relative2Absolute);
     @paths = qw(
      ..\dir\file.txt
      ./other.doc
      c:\boot.ini
     );
     Relative2Absolute @paths;

DESCRIPTION
    Convert relative paths to absolute. Understands UNC paths.

    The functions understands many different types of paths

        dir\file.txt
        ..\dir\file.txt
        c:\dir\file.txt
        c:\dir\..\file.txt
        \dir\file.txt
        \\server\share\dir\..\file.txt
        c:dir\file.txt

    and of course you may pepper these with whatever mixtures of \.\ and
    \..\ you like. You may use both forward and backward slashes, the result
    will be in backward slashes.

    ! The ussage of paths of type c:file.txt is slightly deprecated. It IS
    supported, but may lead to a change of current directory. The function
    first chdir()s top the current directory on the drive mentioned in the
    path and then back to cwd() in time it was called. If any of those
    chdir()s fails, the result of the function will be undef.

    This is likely to happen if one of the drives is a floppy or CD, or if
    one of the drives was a network drive and was disconnected.

Functions
    Relative2Absolute
       Relative2Absolute @list;

      Converts all paths in @list to absolute paths "in-place". That is the
      function changes the list you pass in.

    RelativeToAbsolute
       $abspath = RelativeToAbsolute $relpath;

      Converts the relative path to absolute. Returns the absolute path, but
      doesn't change the parameter. It takes exactly one parameter!

       print join(' ',RelativeToAbsolute '_file.txt','_other.txt');
          prints
       c:\_file.txt _other.txt
          instead of
       c:\_file.txt c:\_other.txt

    Win32::AbsPath::Fix $path
      The same as RelativeToAbsolute.

  AUTHOR

    <Jenda@Krynicky.cz> and Mike <blazer@mail.nevalink.ru>