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Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Thu Feb 16 09:09:39 AEST 1989


In article <999 at auspex.UUCP>, guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> 	Multiple successive *slashes* are considered the same as one
> 	*slash*.  A pathname that begins with two successive *slashes*
> 	may be interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although
> 	more than two leading *slashes* shall be treated as a single
> 	*slash*.

So someone should tell the people doing HDB uucp to stop converting:

	//node/path/file

into:

	/node/path/file

so we could access remote nodes on our net from our new System V box.
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