windows file dialogs with unix file path

[Andrew Neil Ramage]

What about writing Unix paths like an URL ?  So you would have
unix://path/to/file

Andrew

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Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Michael Jung <mjung at iss.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>That's a good point about the heuristic. So probably unix paths should just be 
>>passed through, without searching for a valid drive letter based wine path. 
>>This would also cleanly separate case sensitive path names from case 
>>insensitive ones. (I'm assuming, but am not quite sure of, that there is a 
>>cheap and robust way to distinguish unix paths from windows paths just by 
>>inspecting the string. Might be hard especially for relative paths.)
> 
> 
> That of course is the whole problem: you cannot reliably identify unix
> paths just by looking at the string.
>