Date   : Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:48 +0100
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Torch discs.

Jim Hearne wrote:
> The weird thing is that the links worked on my PC, i think the newer
> versions of IE fix a lot of URL mistakes without you even knowing.

It's because the links have DOS slashes in them which Internet
Explorer "fixes" to URL slashes, contrary to the standards.

      vv
http:\\quantums.info/oldcomputers/bbc/discimages/torch%206...

and it transparently translates the absolute references because
you are accessing them from your machine, so it knows it's
your site.

At least it's not a link to file:\\C:\\My Documents\.... which
I've seen too many times to believe. ;)

A quick look at the disks suggests about half are CPN disks,
readable with CPMFiler, and half are UnixFS disks, which may
be readable with UnixFiler.

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J.G.Harston - jgh@...      - mdfs.net