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Date:	Tue, 07 May 2002 08:17:08 -0400
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
CC:	cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: URL paths in setup.exe
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Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> >> file://d|/foo/bar.txt is on win32.
>
> Ok I understand this. The "d|" or "d:" is useful so we can understand that
> the path is not on some remote machine.
>
> EB> file:///d/foo/bar.txt on Cygwin should work as well depending on the
> EB> cygdrive value. ;)
> EB> file:///d:/foo/bar.txt should be the win32 mechanism.
>
> Why the extra slash infront of "d" ?
>

Bad typing. that should be file://d:/foo/bar.txt

>
> EB> file://d/foo/bar.txt is definitely relative to the current working
> EB> directory.
>
> I don't understand why it is relative ?

mkdir -p d/foo
touch d/foo/bar.txt

It's relative to the working directory.

Earnie.

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