put url tricks to copy files on windows

[Mark Waddingham]

As others have pointed out, for binfile and file urls you shouldn't include the standard '//' in front of the (absolute) path. These are not parsed by the engine as standard urls - everything after the : is parsed as the filename.

On an unrelated not you don't need to twiddle with the defaultfolder as files() and folders() now take an optional argument for the path :)

Mark

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> On 21 Jun 2017, at 03:37, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/20/2017 07:19 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
>> I'm not on a mac a lot :-(
>> So is "binfile:" more universal, or do I have to check the platform,
>> first?  What is the technique on linux?
> 
> As far as I can remember, the "//" has never been recommended or approved for file or binfile. I'm surprised it gets parsed properly for OSX. You don't need or want it.
> 
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