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Re: for the brave
Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>file://///Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini
>>file:////Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini
>>
>>
>
> This makes sense. You need two // after file: and two // before
> Polgara. The extra fifth / was just ignored.
Sure, I understand that. (Side note: file://Polgara/... also works,
for whatever reason). But here's the question:
local_dir (as I typed it) already contained two leading '/' chars
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...
--Chuck