Re: Status of RFC 1738 -- 'ftp' URI scheme

Michael Wojcik scripsit:

> I don't think the file scheme should try to do anything at all, beyond
> attempting to open the named resource using the normal OS mechanism for
> opening a file. 

But that's precisely my point: UNC names *are* obtained by opening the
named resource using the normal OS mechanism, given the obvious mapping
of / to \ (which is not actually required by the Windows kernel).

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