In article <11*********************@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.c om>,
<jk*****@comcast.netwrote:
>jk*****@comcast.net wrote:
>Does anybody know what ///. is. A lot of my files have this. When I look at my history and open my computer, some files have file:///C:/Program Files/MSOE.TXT This is one example. Could these files be corrupt?
The file: is important in that context. file:///. would indicate
a URI type of file. Then // to indicate that the URI is absolute
instead of relative. That is followed by the hostname terminated
by a slash: since there is nothing in there before that terminating
slash, the meaning is the empty hostname which means "localhost".
The part after that the local part (relative to the host which is
your local host in this case), and the . there indicates "current
directory".
Note that interpretation of filenames is not part of the C standard.
Similarily, on your system, probably the system interprets
file:///C:/Program Files/MSOE.TXT
as indicating a file, with an absolute path given, the path being
on the local computer (the /// part), and on that computer the
disk is C: and the directory is "Program Files" and the filename
within that directory is MSOE.TXT .
Could these files be corrupt?
That's a loaded question. It's obviously an MS Windows filename
reference, and there are some people who would say loudly
that everything having to do with MS Windows is corrupt. ;-)
But the entries look completely plausible for MS Windows.
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I was very young in those days, but I was also rather dim.
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