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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
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Subject: Re: To . or not to .
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 12:37:36 EST
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In article <972@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:

>SVR2 (and any AT&T Unix system I'm familiar with) lets you use
>multiple /.
>
>	//a is the same as /a
>	a//b is the same as a/b
>
>This nice thing about doing it this way is that you can be a little
>sloppy in your program and it will still work.  I admit it I'm lazy!
>And what is the harm anyway?

The harm is that this is not portable.  With UTek's DFS, //a refers to the
root directory on a machine called 'a'.  I've seen articles indicating
that Apollo's multi-machine file system (whatever they call their version)
uses the same syntax.  (Is anyone familiar with Apollo out there?)

Sloppy programming is not a good idea.

Snoopy
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