Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, David Combs wrote:

> > From address@hidden Fri Mar  7 11:56:33 1997
> > X-Authentication-Warning: rust.nmt.edu: bsittler owned process doing -bs
> > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:09:18 -0700 (MST)
> > 
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> > [snip section on simple tilde-expansion]
> > > Everything to here I understand.
> > 
> > > >     + Otherwise, replace everything before the first '/' with the home
> > > >       directory of the user named.
> > 
> > > This one I don't recognize.  What's an example of this?
> 
> 
> eg  "foo/bar/bletch.dat".
> 
> turn it into "/home/larryV/boo/bar/blecth.dat".
> 
> Make it non relative.

Not quite... foo/bar/bletch.dat is a case not covered by my example
algorithm, since file: URLs must start with "/", "/~", or "/~user", and so
are absolute to start with. The "/~" and "/~user" forms are just shortcuts
for actual (filesystem) absolute paths.


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