Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!praxis!gauss!drb From: drb@praxis.co.uk (David Brownbridge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <1606@newton.praxis.co.uk> Date: 3 Dec 87 12:42:36 GMT References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <38c15248.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> <9559@mimsy.UUCP> <411@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: nobody@praxis.co.uk Reply-To: drb%praxis.uucp@ukc.ac.uk(David Brownbridge) Organization: Praxis Systems plc, Bath, UK Lines: 19 In article <411@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> jgm@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Myers) writes: >Just to add to the confusion, let me put in a plug in for the Carnegie-Mellon >University Computer Science Department's syntax: > >/../host We built a system which also allowed super-super-roots and so on ad infinitum. /../NearbyHost /../../OtherSite/host /../../../OtherCountry/AnotherSite/host "/.." makes sense to me which is why I promoted it as the "University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Laboratory's syntax" :-) Some old-timers must remember the "Newcastle Connection" distributed UNIX system which Lindsay Marshall and I wrote in 1981-2. "Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand" [Billy Bragg/Oyster Band "Between The Wars"]