Subject: Re: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:28:40 -0400

> defaulting then to localhost). In fact, it is the URL that points to a
    > file, in some filesystem, with absolute path "c:/some/file.txt".

    No. That is not an absolute path on most platforms.

Please note that the GNU terminology for this is "file name" -- "path"
means a list of directories, only.

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