A few thoughts about KUrl

subbukk subbukk at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 08:16:46 GMT 2006


On Friday 22 December 2006 03:28, Stephen Leaf wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 8:16 am, Leonardo Stern wrote:
> On a side note doesn't windows use \ for its separators not / ?
> C:\Directory\example ?
Windows file APIs support both / and \ as pathname separators. So, both
   file:///C:/Directory/Example
and
   file:///C:\Directory\Example
refer to the same resource.

On command lines pathnames that begin with '/' are likely to be mistaken 
for switches/options, so '\' is commonly used.

Happy Holidays .. K. K. Subbu




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