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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:49:35 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), jkh@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf 
Message-ID:  <97Oct8.094935pdt.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 97 04:42:52 PDT." <25109.876310972@time.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:
>Perhaps the double slashes no longer work now given Bill's
>latest changes to fetch(1)?

Oh.  Yeah.  According to the RFC, double slashes mean 'send a "CWD " command'
which is a syntax error to all FTP servers I know of.  However, it probably
makes more sense to make fetch just skip double slashes, since they're common
and I can't imagine someone actually wanting the "CWD " behavior.

  Bill



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