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Re: URL paths in setup.exe
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 07:54:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: URL paths in setup.exe
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C6001@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
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.
file://d/foo/bar.txt is definitely relative to the current working
directory.
Earnie.