Subject: Re: Question / comment about DIRECTORY
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 28 Oct 2001 03:26:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9rftsh$3mmmm$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Ingvar Mattsson  <ingvar@cathouse.bofh.se> wrote:
+---------------
| And the effort spent in squishing slashes is, eh, rather mis-spent
| since in (at least most, if not all) unixes you can access a file with
| multiple slashes without a problem.
+---------------

Indeed. *Including* trailing slashes for plain files, too:

	% ls -l foo
	-rw-r--r--    1 rpw3     engr          27 Oct 27 20:18 foo
	% cat foo
	This is a plain text file.
	% cat foo/
	This is a plain text file.
	% pwd
	/u/rpw3
	% cat ///u///..///u///.///rpw3///.///.///foo///
	This is a plain text file.
	% 


-Rob

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