Re: directory separator for attachments on W2K

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On September 18, 2003 at 15:35, =?iso-8859-1?q?Neil=20Ransom?= wrote:

> I'm running Mhonarc on W2K, and I'm using subdirectories for attachments. 
> However, the directory separator for attachments are "\", as opposed to 
> the path separator of "/". For example:-
> 
> The message body will have a URL of:
> 
> http://server/lists/test/archive/2003-09/msg0002.html
> 
> and an attachment - say, mydoc.doc - will have a URL of:-
> 
> http://server/lists/test/archive/2003-09/msg0002\mydoc.doc
> 
> The attachments can still viewed, but it would nice to have consistent 
> directory separators.

This is a bug.  All URLs should use forward slashes.  Internally,
MHonArc will use '\' for writing files (under Windows), but URLs
should never use them.  Feel free to submit a formal bug report at
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=mhonarc>

--ewh