Re: [Lynx-dev] strange behavior opening localfile with "#"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> I've got a report about Lynx's strange behavior opening localfile with
> "#" on Windows.
>
> These are the behaviors which I found, putting a file, which name is
> "foo#bar", on the current directory and d:/tmp.
>
>  1. It SHOULD be opend and actually it is. (expected)
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss foo#bar
>
>  2. It SHOULD be opend but actually it isn't. (unexpected)
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss ./foo#bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss d:/tmp/foo#bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss file://localhost/d:/tmp/foo%23bar
>
>  3. It SHOULDN'T be opend and actually it isn't. (expected)
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss ./foo%23bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss d:/tmp/foo%23bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss file://localhost/d:/tmp/foo#bar
>
>  4. It SHOULDN'T be opend but actually it is. (unexpected)
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss ./foo%2523bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss d:/tmp/foo%2523bar
>        lynx -cfg=lynx.cfg -lss=lynx.lss file://localhost/d:/tmp/foo%2523bar
>
> I've tested 2.8.6rel.1 for Windows got from this URL.
>    http://pervalidus.50webs.org/cygwin/lynx/

I can reproduce this (will see).

thanks

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