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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: [.] and [..] keep showing up in root directory
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.202752.23212@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 20:27:52 GMT
  7. References: <722032130snx@sugs.tware.com>
  8. Sender: news@njit.edu
  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  12.  
  13. I wonder if this could be installed:
  14.  
  15. On one Unix system I use, four computers have their file systems
  16. linked over a network using the "/.." directory.  You go to the root,
  17. type "cd ..", then type "cd mahinename" and you're now in the root
  18. directory of that machine.
  19.  
  20. I wonder if the HPFS "/.." directory could be hooked to do this like
  21. that Unix box was...
  22. -- 
  23.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  24.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
  25. ((|,)                        | source of these .signature virusses
  26.  ~|~
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