Re: Cygwin patches

[Ken Brown]

On 11/22/2009 8:50 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So are you saying that "file:" (with no slashes) is added by design?
> > It doesn't work for me.  (After the call to cygpath, I have a path of
> > the form C:/blah/blah/blah.html; I need to add "file://", since
> > otherwise only "file:" gets added and I don't have a valid URL.)
>
> Does this change (instead of the other patches we've been considering)
> do the right thing on Cygwin?

No.  It still just adds "file:" to the windows path I get after the call 
to cygpath.  And I can't omit the call to cygpath; if I do that, I'll 
have a URL with the right number of slashes, but it won't be one that 
the Windows browser will understand.

Ken