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RE: for the brave
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:13:00 -0600
- Subject: RE: for the brave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson
[snip]
> the concat call prepended "file://" with two more '/' chars
>
>
> 2+2 = 4
>
> So why does the resulting filespec have only 3 '/' chars? Somewhere
> along the line, I don't know where, the local_dir I entered is having
> one of its leading '/' stripped...
>
I think concat() itself is doing that, in an attempt to canonicalize the paths
while it creates them.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.