- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:41:27 -0500
- To: Jim_Ravan@avid.com, www-lib@w3.org
At 15:54 1/28/99 -0500, Jim_Ravan@avid.com wrote: >What is the proper syntax for a file: scheme? I have seen >file:///dir/subdir/file, but I don't understand why there are three slashes >after the initial colon. > >Is there anyway to know whether or not the user intends that the beginning >of the path is a physical disk? On a Mac, this matters. On Unix, it's not a >problem, obviously. I expect the answer is "no, other than server >convention". Yeah - what I do is using the HTLocalToWWW(...) function defined in http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTWWWStr.html There also is a function to convert from URI format to local disk, it is defined in the same module. On windows the format is rather strange format which seems to work in most browsers: file:/C:/tmp/irc.txt for local disk files and file://Big/part/tmp/irc.txt for networked resources. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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