On 14-1-2011 10:16, Invisible wrote:
> On 13/01/2011 09:44 PM, andrel wrote:
>> On 12-1-2011 12:08, Invisible wrote:
>>> Last week, I wasted about 20 minutes trying to fill out a form.
>>>
>>> The problem is simple. The form contains a box where I'm supposed to
>>> write a file path. But the pathname goes through 5 subdirectories,
>>> ending in a 33-character filename. I don't know about you, but I can't
>>> write that much text in a space less than 10cm across.
>>
>> would tinyurl or something similar have worked?
>
> No. It's not a URL, it's the pathname of a file on one of our servers.

I was aware of that. I tried to ask if something like: 
http://tinyurl.com/6ednez
would have worked.
In my case not on this machine, but a comparable service might have worked.
Or put differently: a path on a machine can be turned into a URL.

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