On 2013-03-28, at 14:44, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get to a FileUrl via the polymorphic asUrl call, but it > seems I am doing something wrong. > > I do: > 'file:d:\' asUrl > > but the problem seems that $: and $\ are mangled, because when I print, I > get: > file:///d%3A%5C > > Furthermore: > 'file:d:\' asUrl asFileReference exists ==> false > > but, at the same time: > 'd:\' asFileReference exists ==> true > > Can anyone tell me where is the mistake? > > Btw, the reason I am looking for this is that I would like to use the > ZeroConf support to load a configuration from a directory Monticello > repository and to do that I have to pass a url to the command line.
I guess that will work out of the box under linux. I think the URL parsing with the directory letter under windows is broken. And I bet there is no test catching that either. Did you try the following? 'file://d:/' asUrl 'file:d:/' asUrl
