On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:15:21PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> > > Thomas Dickey:
> >
> > > links file://localhost/usr/build/ncurses/MD5sums
> > >
> > > becomes an error popup:
> > >
> > > file:///usr/build/ncurses/localhost/usr/build/ncurses/MD5sums
> >
> > i don't know what's going wrong there, but accessing local files has been
> > working for ages in both links and elinks.
>
> nor I - just now I noticed I'd typed 2 /'s rather than 3, and retested -
> still no. Since it was known to be not-working a year or so ago when
> I added all of the browsers as external viewers, I don't know when it
> might have been made to work.
Also if you insist on using 'localhost' inside file:// urls, just make
a symlink:
ln -s / /localhost
And they will work in links too (but you'll have to use triple slashes
after file: for it to work)..
Best regards,
-Vlad
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