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From: jgm@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Myers)
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Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point"
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Just to add to the confusion, let me put in a plug in for the Carnegie-Mellon
University Computer Science Department's syntax:

/../host

"/.." is known as the "super-root".  It seems logically consistent to me...

				_.John