[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62865] 'path' should return drive letter, not UNC path when 'addpath' was called with drive letter

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62865 (project octave):

not sure when that would happen.  on my server situation, if I move an m file
to the root of a network drive, open octave cli, cd there, run the following I
get:


>> which logistic_regression
'logistic_regression' is a function from the file
\\full.server.name\path\to\mapped\serer\logistic_regression.m

>> help logistic_regression
'logistic_regression' is a function from the file
\\alcnxfs.nae.ds.army.mil\ALC-HomeShare\nicholas.jankowski\logistic_regression.m

 -- [THETA, BETA, DEV, DL, D2L, P] = logistic_regression (Y, X, PRINT,
          THETA, BETA)
     Perform ordinal logistic regression.
...


I think whatever it is has to call system() for it to hit the CMD issue with
UNC paths. First time i ran into the UNC issue I was using an old script
calling an external tool with system. 

does pkg do system calls? if so that might be the most common opportunity for
this issue. maybe instrument control? but i don't think that really runs fully
on windows (haven't checked in a while).


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