allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (10/28/85)
>................................................... No doubt some guru will > suggest a clean way round the obvious problem with "/" (but the name of the > root directory is already anomalous, and a counterexample to the c&sf-ness > of the file system). > > -- Andy Walker, Maths Dept, Nottingham Univ > anw@UK.AC.Nott.Maths *** REPLACE THIS POLICE BOX WITH YOUR TARDIS *** So ``/'' is non-orthogonal. (I am about to get TOPS-[12]0/T[W]ENEX users upset at me... flames to PS:<NULL>) I've seen orthogonal -- is PS:<ROOT> an improve- ment? Worse yet, the easiest way to orthogonalize Unix is: / -> (empty) OR / /tmp -> tmp OR /tmp . -> . OR /. (yuck) foo -> ./foo OR /./foo (double ") /tmp/a -> tmp/a OR /tmp/a foo/bar -> ./foo/bar OR /./foo/bar I don't like either -- <ROOT> is cleaner. (Maybe we should adopt TOPS-20 filenames MINUS GENERATION-RETENTION-COUNT et cetera...?) -- ``Youth, you are guilty of muddy thinking.'' Mentor ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNet (ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA) ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa -- maybe ..genrad!mit-eddie!futura!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St., Mentor, OH 44060 (I moved) --Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 -- MCI MAIL BALLBERY (WARNING: I am only a part-time denizen...) ncoast is dead, long live ncoast!