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Subject:	RE: Re[2]: URL paths in setup.exe
Date:	Tue, 7 May 2002 21:20:20 +1000
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> 
> How would this confuse them ? I don't think with 
> file://d|/foo/bar.txt is better thatn file://d/foo/bar.txt. There is a
method which converts d:\foo\bar to file URL - isn't it > enough ? There
is also a method whic gets the parsed URL as path.
> 
> Btw see the attached program. It is a test for the URL parser.


file://d/foo/bar.txt isn't clear whether it's absolute or not.
file:///d/foo/bar.txt is on posix, and
file://d|/foo/bar.txt is on win32.

I know that it doesn't fit in the URI spec, but URI's are universal, and
(most) filesystems are local resources only.

Rob

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