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From: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work
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Thomas Baumann wrote:
> Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my Windows machine, I tried to access a link like this from my org file:
>>
>> file://host/dir/file_name
>>     
>
> shouldn't that be 
>
> file://host:/dir/file_name
>
> note the second colon after host.
>
> Thomas
>
>   
Tried that (on windows), does not work either. The error message is:
"No such file:  file://host:/dir/file_name"

I thought ideally whatever file path that is acceptable by the OS should 
be usable in org mode.

Wanrong