Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU!jgm From: jgm@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <411@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 11:55:44 EST Article-I.D.: PT.411 Posted: Mon Nov 30 11:55:44 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 04:19:10 EST References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <38c15248.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> <9559@mimsy.UUCP> Sender: netnews@PT.CS.CMU.EDU Organization: System/Technology Development Corp. Lines: 8 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