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url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

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Message #65 received at 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:07:52 +0200

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:59, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:40, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but please remember if you make that interpretation (which I hope
>> is the correct one) then "c:/some/file.txt" is an absolute local file
>> name in URL file name syntax.
>>
>> So if we hold on to that interpretation then maybe we should say (and
>> document ;-) that url-filename returns such a file name and that it
>> needs to be translated to the actually used systems file syntax to be
>> used there.
>>
>> This would be an incompatible change from the current (faulty)
>> behaviour, but I think it would be the best.
>
> Isn't that what I've been saying all along?

If you say so ;-)

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