Re: PATCH: BOOK: Windows drive letter in "file:" URL

Julian Foad wrote:
> I have committed a patch which updates two copies of the FAQ (one in the
> book and one in www/project_faq.html) in r6962. At least they now refer
> to a single place where the syntax is described, in chapter 2. But it
> still describes "|" as an alternative to ":", and it seems that that is
> no longer supported. I get the feeling it's been removed on purpose,
> but no-one has really confirmed that yet.

FWIW, the pipe character is used by CVSNT when referring to drive letters,
instead of the colon, specifically because the colon is used to delimit the
CVSROOT subsections, i.e.:

        CVSROOT=:pserver:user@host.domain.example:/d|/path/to/repository

Since CVS does not use HTTP, it probably was never considered that the | is
illegal in URI's. It may be that the original intention was that file:// would
work with pipes but the http:// would not.

HTH

John

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