[Dev-luatex] running scripts from UNC paths

[T T]

On 15 April 2010 15:09, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 15-4-2010 3:57, T T wrote:
>
>>   $ texlua \\.\H:\DEV\scratch\arg0test.lua
>>   No script file given
>
>
> puting something in front of a drive specification is wrong anyway i think,
> just try
>
> dir ".\c:"

It should be dir "\\.\c:\" and it works just fine. See also:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#namespaces

The UNC syntax is used to access network drives on Windows like so:

  \\ComputerName\SharedFolder\Resource

Stock Lua does not have any problem with UNC paths, so this looks like
a bug in luatex but I couldn't locate it in the sources so far.

Cheers,

Tomek