At 10:29 PM +0200 10/16/02, J.Pietschmann wrote:
>A C as hostname would be legal. But the string above fails the port
>part of the production, if there is a colon, a decimal number designing
>the port should follow.
>
No, C is not a network host. It satisfies the BNF grammar but it does
not satisfy the spec semantics. It refers to the host named C, not
the disk named C.
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