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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
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 06:28:53 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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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

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