[pmwiki-users] Local windows files and unix

Neil Herber nospam at mail.eton.ca
Mon Feb 7 18:29:06 CST 2005


At 2005-02-07  06:57 PM -0500, Martin Fick is rumored to have said:
>First, is there anyway to make PmWiki recognize windows file
>URLs such as \\fileserver\fil?  In other words, automatically
>detect such URLs in plain text and mark them up as links?

Martin

There was quite a long discussion about this recently under the topic "how 
does one encode "file:" link in a wiki page?" The discussion starts here:

http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2005-January/009436.html

One major problem is that  not all browsers allow you to access a local 
file via a URL on a web page.



Neil

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