From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-relative-name and remote files Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:32:13 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E5C8BAC.8000201@math.ku.dk> <84of4xd582.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <848yw0pibe.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <20030228162753.GA4457@gnu.org> <200302281835.h1SIZS821642@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046467988 5385 80.91.224.249 (28 Feb 2003 21:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18os7t-0001OQ-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18osPS-0007zx-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:51:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18os7Q-0001W4-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18os78-0001Uy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18os76-0001Tj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18os76-0001Sf-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8345714C89; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:32:15 +0100 (MET) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" X-Yow: I'm young.. I'm HEALTHY.. I can HIKE THRU CAPT GROGAN'S LUMBAR REGIONS! In-Reply-To: <200302281835.h1SIZS821642@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:35:28 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-cc: Kai Gro?johann Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12035 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12035 "Stefan Monnier" writes: |> IIRC Domain OS (i.e. Apollo's operating system) also had something |> special for /.. but since I've never used such a system I'd be surprised |> to remember correctly. I remember now, that was the system I was thinking of. They had some other quite interesting features, like environment variable expansion in symlinks targets. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."