GNU bug report logs - #6339
url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #89 received at 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
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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