On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:42 AM Bo Berglund via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> >Windows knows specials paths starting with '\\'. > > But I don't! :( > What is special with these? \\?\C:\foo\bar\..\.. is not the same path as C:\foo\bar\..\.. (which basically is C:\) If a path starts with \\?\ like above, all characters in the path are taken literally (so you cannot construct a relative path), or ot is used to build a UNC path: \\?\UNC\ IIRC then also device names start with \\.\ or something the like. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file Bart -- Bart -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
