Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ? Message-ID: <1991Apr2.174419.12250@visix.com> Date: 2 Apr 91 17:44:19 GMT References: <1991Mar14.011826.18836@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991Mar15.200621.15994@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <4165@stl.stc.co.u Sender: news@visix.com Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 25 Folks, there is no "root" directory in the Mac file system. The NCSA FTP server uses a fairly simple scheme: if a pathname begins with a slash, the leading slash is removed and the remaining ones are changed to colons. Thus, the pathname /disk1/foo/bar/baz gets translated to: disk1:foo:bar:baz Because of the simplicity of the scheme, you can cd directly to any folder on any mounted disk, but you have to know the volume name first. If you just cd up and down the directory structure, you'll never get off of the default volume. It wouldn't be too hard to add a pseudo-root (sort of like System 7.0's standard file dialogs do), but as far as I know, no one has actually done so. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." ---Mae West