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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point"
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:47:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 19:47:29 1987
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	"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]