Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <9446@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:47:29 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.9446 Posted: Tue Dec 1 19:47:29 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 03:21:34 EST References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 24 [] "The main problem with the // scheme is that it is not sufficiently general. "grep -i gwyn /n/ucbvax/n/monet/etc/passwd "should work, but I doubt that "grep -i gwyn //ucbvax//monet/etc/passwd "would." What you really want (at least in the environment I work in) is grep -i gwyn //monet/etc/passwd All hosts reside in the same flat name space, so going to a host through another host isn't implemented. (Network gateways are implemented with the usual TCP/IP routing mechanism, transparently to the network file system.) -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]