windows file dialogs with unix file path

[Andrew Neil Ramage]

This is a Windows program and people want to use Unix paths.  So the 
'unix://' in front of the path is a protocol, not a path.

Like when you are browsing the internet using http, and wamt to download 
from an FTP server, you preface the address with ftp://

Andrew

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Vincent Béron wrote:
> Le ven 22/04/2005 à 20:09, Francois Gouget a écrit :
> 
>>On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Andrew Neil Ramage wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What about writing Unix paths like an URL ?  So you would have
>>>unix://path/to/file
>>
>>Why not write Unix paths as 'z:/path/to/file'. It's just one letter 
>>instead of four so it would be even easier. Implementation's trivial 
>>too, we would create a symbolic link to '/' called 'z:' in dosdevices...
> 
> 
> People wanting access to unix paths in Wine want a "normal" unix path,
> ie /path/to/file instead of z:/path/to/file (or z:\path\to\file). The z:
> part is not unix, and that breaks the integration (use of a drive letter
> while on unix).
> 
> The other thing is if/when z: doesn't map to / anymore... how do you add
> it back from within winecfg?
> 
> 
>>Hmm, I feel like I've seen that before. Where???
> 
> 
> No idea. Maybe you should submit a patch to Wine :)
> 
> Vincent
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