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Subject: Re: Lisp code to expand /~ and // but not env vars?
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Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> // is in UNIX nonsense. The root is / and does not get more root when
> written as '//' -- this only has in ancient (Apollo) Domain OS a
> meaning (Domain OS could create ad-hoc networks and // was the root of
> the individual members in the network). '//' is created as a text in
> mini-buffer when you either try to find a file or try to dired. The
> right means to handle such strings would be to substitute everything
> from the beginning to // with /.

//server/share/file is a valid path to a file on Emacs running under
MS Windows.

/Mathias