# aldus Duncan Murdoch : > In Unix-like systems, is it *always* safe to add a slash between a > pathname and a filename?
Not if the path is empty:
'' + '/' + 'file' -> /file
is not the same as:
'' + 'file' -> file
Doubling of a slash has no effect (at least on Linux and HP-UX)
unless you are using kpsetools.
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Peter Kleiweg
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