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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout.
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 07:47:20 +1000 (EST)
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>> > Any strenuous objections to folding these into one location in -current?
>> 
>> DO IT!
>> 
>> The traditional difference has been causing me much grief when
>> installing via FTP from a CDROM.  (It usually required lying about the
>> dist directory, and providing a separate ``root'' floppy.)
>> 
>> I'd also like to see FTP installations using the given path as
>> absolute (as opposed to $HOME-relative) if it starts with a slash, but
>> that's of course way too late for 2.1.5.
>
>Why, you don't like specifying a URL of
>
>ftp://ftp/../../../../../../../some/path/name?

I've always done local ftp installs with an absolute path, but putting
in two slashes:

  ftp://hostname//absolute/path

That's always worked for me.

David