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Date:      23 Aug 2002 12:58:36 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports problems -- FIXED
Message-ID:  <441y8pzf43.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200208231250.g7NCoJQ3073804@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200208231250.g7NCoJQ3073804@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> writes:

> The $PATH is a sequence of dirctory names (separated by
> colons).  A directory name is just that -- the file name
> of a directory.  Such a name _never_ ends with a slash,
> because the slash is used to separate components of a
> path.

That was my assumption, but I've been unsuccessful in trying to back
it up with hard facts.  I have checked a wide range of reference
materials (aside from POSIX itself, to which I have no access), and
can't find anything to say this explicitly.

Be well.

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