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Re: Sendmail fixkit

From: dave () esi com au (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:43:08 +1000 (EST)


On Sat, 4 Mar 1995, John F. Haugh II wrote:

On old versions of UNIX "" was the same as ".".


It still is, at least, under SunOS and BSD/OS.

On newer versions the extra /'s are just skipped over.


They always were, at least, since Edition 5.

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