>> The @sys will not be translated if it is merely embedded in a file
>> name.  It might be better to say something more like:
>> " If an element of a pathname is @sys, it will be replaced with the value
>> returned by 'fs sysname', which is AFS's concept of the type of machine..."

Not quite.  How about

If the string @samp{@@sys} appears at the end of a component of a
filename to be used in @sc{AFS}, it is automagically replaced with
@sc{AFS}'s concept of the @dfn{type} of the machine that the file name
is being expanded on.

                Marc

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