Re: paths are sensative to double separators

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:


> Actually, I believe posix says the exact opposite: Multiple slashes
> are equivalent to a single slash, except at the head of the path,
> where a double slash may have a different meaning. 


> (On the Apollo
> machines of old, running domain/os, a leading double slash indicated
> the "network root",



On ammig // is also meaningful, not just leading in leading positions, 
as the amiga "parent directory" syntax.

i.e.
unix
foo/bar/../baz

amiga

foo/bar//baz



Emacs used to have an amiga port, but not sure whether it used 
ixemul.library  (analogous to cygwin) or was native. In the latter case, 
it would have mattered.