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Re: URL paths in setup.exe
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Robert Collins wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:55 PM
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>>file:///d/foo/bar.txt on Cygwin should work as well depending on the
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>cygdrive value. ;) file:///d:/foo/bar.txt should be the
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>>win32 mechanism.
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>: has special meaning in url's, which is why MS and netscape use | to
>represent : for file:// URL's.
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I may be wrong, but I think the translation ':'=>'|' is an IETF RFC, not
just a MS/NS trick. Yes, it is because ':' is reserved.
OBTW, the tripple slash is, I believe, necessary to specify that the
"d|" is *not* an authority. The "empty" authority means localhost.
Sorry if I'm a little behind.
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