270405 - files in command line under Windows are interpreted in Unix way

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Marcin Wojtczuk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Under windows (tested on Windows 2000):

mozilla -editor C:\some_folder\some_file.html

results in error. Error says: cannot open
/C:/some_folder/some_file.html

This means that path is changed to unix directory tree style.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Should have tried to open C:\some_folder\some_file.html

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

the commandline expects an URL
" -edit <url>              Start with editor."

c:\somefolder\file.html is not a URL, file:///c:/somefilder/file.html is one

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

absolutely

Comment 3

[timeless]

[e-mail]: this poses a serious problem for windows integration where
there's an option to right click a file and select edit.

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

timeless: I was saying "absolutely" because I misread the status of this bug and
thought it was closed "WFM". I see it WFM on my WinXP box but I have no access
to a Win2K box.
I am therefore reopening the bug until somebody can test it under Win2k.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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