On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Daniel A. Koepke wrote: >On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Kevin Dethlefs wrote: > >> When it tries to read the index file for it, it has "Mar 23 22:54:29 >> :: SYSERR: boot error - 0 records counted in text/polls//index." >> Notice the two /'s. > >The number of slashes is unimportant. If you're sceptical, you can try >`ls /////usr/////////bin//vi` from the command line. The number of >slashes is insignificant on every system I use (various Linux, SunOS, and >Solaris boxen). A leading '//', as in "//usr", is reserved for a special use by some standard (SuS or POSIX probably) but it doesn't currently do anything different under Linux. Any other place in the path and there is no difference. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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