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Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> And, it nontrivially complicates path handling since we'd have to make
> decisions about whether to honor // or not.
>

I'd suggest using /// for UNC, dropping exactly one / if FILEPATH[0]
and FILEPATH[1] is equal to /.

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