Re: LYNX-DEV Latest merged code package

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> >A couple of other things I've noticed that the Win32 version needs are an
> >awareness of DOS's funky backslash separator (file:///c:\test.html will
> >crash lynx) as well as the ability to deal with just a filepath on the
> 
> Certainly things should be fixed so if someone makes the mistake of using
> a backslash character in a path lynx doesn't crash.  However, I seem
> to recall that the backslash is not a valid separator character in a URL.
> Even on dos machines, to follow the standards one is supposed to use
> a forward slash I believe.  However, perhaps lynx could just translate
> those back slashs to forward slashs for the users.

Yes, I think it should convert them.  If you enter D:/TEST.HTML in
Internet Explorer, it will display that as the URL.  If you enter the same
in Netscape, it will convert it to something like file:///D|/TEST.HTML.
Both of which may be invalid, but since drag and drop has no concept of
file: URL's and just sends the DOS/Win style filename, Lynx should handle
it to be truely competitive as a full-fledged browser under Win.

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