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To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 07:47:20 +1000."
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 16:29:36 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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.

Right, THAT works and always has since I figure in the case of two
//'s, the user knows exactly what he/she's doing. :-)

						Jordan