use of drive letters on windows (and under WSL)

[masinter]

... and when you had a colon in the name NOT as part of a device it confused the parser.

When you're running on a Windows system, host {dsk} should have a device -- "{dsk}D:/foo/bar.txt" would be the way I would expect to refer to a directory on the D: drive.

Originally posted by @nbriggs in #651 (comment)

Under WSL we could map the drive letters or "device" for remote mounts

{DSK}C:/path1/path2/file => /mnt/c/path1/path2/file

[nbriggs]

If we were using a WSL Unix approximation of a Windows file name, then sure, the mapping DEVICE: to /mnt/DEVICE/path1/path2/file would probably be the right thing, otherwise if the code were compiled for the Windows interfaces which have a drive letter, then we should consider what to do with it. I don't know if we're going to run in pure Windows mode, though.

[masinter]

Going to transfer this to a Discussion about windows without X