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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: Re: archive normal form
Message-ID: <3234.Jun2705.32.2791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 05:32:27 GMT
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In article <=qflq6j@rpi.edu> rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
> In article <20665.Jun2617.26.1691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >So it's best to have any number of fields, each meaning ``give this
> >field to cd'', and then a final field meaning ``get this.'' A name like
> >pub/foo/bar reflects this perfectly: cd pub, cd foo, get bar. Similarly,
> >a simple name like readme.txt means don't do any cd's, just get bar.
> Except there are some sites which won't let you cd to the dirs inbetween.
> You have to give the full dir path at once.  How does the format handle
> that?  

As I suggested in the first posting, slashes could be quoted.

---Dan