Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: > Is there an MSDN page that actually gives a grammar, or at least a > taxonomy, of Win32 pathnames? That would be useful.
It would also be longer than "War and Peace", once you start allowing for MS-DOS "8.3" pathnames, codepages, the fact that anything anywhere which contains "aux", "con", "lpt" etc refers to a device (sometimes), the fact that "..." == "../.." (sometimes), the handling of incomplete multibyte characters, ... Search the BugTraq archives for issues related to IIS access-control lists to discover the myriad different names which can be used to refer to a given file for which the administrator is (unsuccessfully) trying to restrict access. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
