Re: Bug in <BASE ..> or in relative URL's? RFC for CGI-specification

Jay C. Weber (weber@eit.COM)
Thu, 25 Aug 94 08:18:57 PDT

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> From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
>
> Well, not every OS works "current directory" like UNIX does. MS-Windows,
> for example, has a current directory for *each* mounted file system, and
> this is shared amongst all the processes. If one process changes the
> "current directory" on drive C, all processes see that change.
>
> So... which current directory should file://localhost/./ reference there?

The current directory of the current drive, of course.

Jay

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