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Subject:	RE: URL paths in setup.exe
Date:	Tue, 7 May 2002 22:05:38 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:55 PM
> 
> file:///d/foo/bar.txt on Cygwin should work as well depending on the
cygdrive value. ;) file:///d:/foo/bar.txt should be the 
>win32 mechanism.

: has special meaning in url's, which is why MS and netscape use | to
represent : for file:// URL's.
As for /d|/ , the leading / is irrelevant, the d| makes it absolute
regardless. Relative URL's don't actually have a scheme, but they only
have meaning in a given context, so we need to stretch the standard a
little.

> 
> file://d/foo/bar.txt is definitely relative to the current working
directory.

Yeah, that's the way I see it, but the URL spec doesn't :[. So we need a
compromise, because it's us developers who need to understand whats
going on easily.

Rob

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