Translation of \\foo\bar links into smb://foo/bar links

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:25 schrieb Jason Keirstead:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 2:20 pm, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > If you want that, you might add a special hack in the file slave that
> > redirects to smb: if it doesn't find a file.
> 
> That seems really weird - any non-existant file will search the network?
No, but those starting with \\ and being non-existant.

> 
> A URL pointing at a file should never start with \\, right? So, why couldn't 
> you test on that?
Why not? What should stop me from having a \\server in my toplevel?

Greetings, Stephan