Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <6769@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 06:28:53 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6769 Posted: Tue Dec 1 06:28:53 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 05:09:17 EST 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> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 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 Stolen from the Newcastle Connection. >"/.." is known as the "super-root". It seems logically consistent to me... So, what is the result of $ cd /.. $ pwd