Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

>>>>> "NW" == Nathan Wiger <[email protected]> writes:

NW> Many others have begged :-) for URI support in open(), so it'll be in
NW> there. This seems like the easiest thing todo. No reason to reinvent the
NW> wheel, URIs are a well-established platform-independent naming scheme.

I'm not sure that it covers all the bases.

It covers the universe that web servers are designed to handle. But
what about the universe of devices. Or remote access to mounted
volumes? Sitting on a unix box, and getting to C: on a windows box?

I'll wait and see how the proposals shape up.

<chaim>
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