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From: mrc@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: syntax of remote pathnames?
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Date: 23 Mar 89 20:01:52 GMT
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Some of us old-timers have used the convention of putting the host name in
square brackets in "[host]path" format, e.g.:
	[WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL]PD1:<MSDOS.NEMACS>EM39EXE.ARC
	[SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU]info-mac/app/contour81.hqx
	[SAIL.STANFORD.EDU]MONCOM.UPD[S,DOC]
	[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].INFO.;DDT ORDER

The path field is, of course, dependent upon the target operating system and,
as the final example shows, can be bizarre, so you need some reasonable way
to infer the path out of context (e.g. using all uppercase, or make it be a
wholeline, etc...).

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