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From: kells@iis.UUCP (Kevin Kells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: "//" in pathnames---standard? & why?
Summary: "//bin/ls" instead of "/bin/ls": is this ok? why is this done?
Message-ID: <4029@iis.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 02:47:45 GMT
Reply-To: kells@iis.UUCP (Kevin Kells)
Organization: Numerical Simulations Group, ETH/IIS Zurich
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I've noticed---in particular in some InterViews #include files---that
files are sometimes specified with absolute pathnames that begin with
two slashes instead of one.

Example:
	#include "//usr/include/sys/time.h"

Is it standard to use two slashes "//" instead of one slash "/" in
absolute pathnames to represent the root directory?

What is the reason that people (or programs) use this style?

Thanks,

Kevin

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