On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:22, Scott Young wrote: > by putting a / at the end of their name. Folders are more complicated, > but I think it should be done by just adding a slash after the full > directory name (full as in including a trailing slash, so therefore > there would be two slashes at the end to access an attribute). > /home//attribute would be the an attribute on the home directory.
This behaviour would be broken, as you can have many slashes together and they just get collapsed as one. This has been so on unixes for a very long time (try 'ls ////////////////////////////////' on your system :) A lot of things would break if // suddenly meant something different. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/
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