[Mono-bugs] [Bug 74771][Maj] Changed - System.Path.IO is no longer handling Windows like paths.

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Changed by gonzalo@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74771

--- shadow/74771	2005-04-29 19:35:01.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/74771.tmp.23445	2005-04-30 17:53:58.000000000 -0400
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@
 not a valid name in .Net or in Java for that matter (even on Linux). 
 And it should be possible to work with that file, but it should be 
 translated into the VM, not the VM molded around it.
 
 Why limit the VM and break compatibilty just because the underlying 
 OS supports something differently?
+
+------- Additional Comments From gonzalo@ximian.com  2005-04-30 17:53 -------
+>Applications that work with Unix and Windows file paths (which will 
+>include any web application that uses an HTML Form with a file input
+       >type), will have to be modified to work with Mono.
+
+What? You mean <input type="file"....> ? And having a 'name' there
+that includes a full path and using that as a path instead of a
+variable name?