On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:21:17PM +0100,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> 
> >>> "Bart" == Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
>  Bart> You're assuming that :r is used exclusively on unix
>  Bart> file-paths and should employ unix file-path semantics,
> 
> Right, I'm shortsighted (didn't think at all about the 
> non-unix world -- does it *really* exist? :o)).

Well, yes. But I haven't seen a port of zsh to MVS or OS/390 so far ;)

[...]
> (My dream is that repeated slashes would be treated as a single
> slash; but I'm probably again assuming filesystem specific convention)

No, it's not filesystem specific. It might be Unix specific, though. ;)

Ciao,
Thomas

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