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From: drb@praxis.co.uk (David Brownbridge)
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Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point"
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Date: 3 Dec 87 12:42:36 GMT
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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"]