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Subject: RE: URL paths in setup.exe
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:45:33 +1000
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I'd like to formalise what file:// and cygfile:// schemes mean.

file:// is a native filesystem URL handler - whatever the OS may be.
cygfile:// is a handler that only makes sense on mingw platforms, and
access's the cygwin mount table.

This means that:
file:///foo/bar.txt is /foo/bar.txt on posix, and Current
drive:\foo\bar.txt on mingw.

As for file:// + d: + \foo\bar.txt, can we normalise that as 
file://d|/foo/bar.txt - that is what MS do, and will be less confusing
for users of the codebase (IMO).

Rob