Re: LYNX-DEV /foo/.. ?

[Wayne Buttles]

Klaus Weide (address@hidden) wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

>>       For DOS, you should do it "right", as I did for VMS, and
>> use an overt URL_symbolic_path <-> local_file_system translation
>> function.

> I don't know what happens with such paths on DOS, I think multiple
> backslashes in arbitrary places are illegal there.

Is there a rule here?  I couldn't find rules for file:// from a quick
search.  My current DOS URL bastardization accepts the following (and a
bunch more variations):

file://localhost/c:\lynx\bookmark.htm
file:///c|/lynx/bookmark.htm
file:////lynx/bookmark.htm
file:///./\/\/\////\\\bookmark.htm

Wayne

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