Re: RFC 100 (v1) Embed full URI support into Perl

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
> So, what's so portable about file:// URLs again? How do they magically > know that //c/ means / on UNIX? What do they do with //z/? This is only one example. I'm not sure it's the best way. It's definitely not the only way. Chaim asked: > Or for that matter "file://u/frankeh/Projects" become

Re: RFC 100 (v1) Embed full URI support into Perl

2000-08-16 Thread Gisle Aas
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With URI support, you still have to contort a little, but not as much. > Here's some better examples from an email I sent earlier: > >$fo = open "file://c/docs/personal"; > ># Unix = /docs/personal# here, 'c' becomes '/' ># Mac = :docs