File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)

[Parker, Ron]

> >In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and
> >"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the 
> Windows path
> >\\machine\dir\file.

> I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're 
> excluding the
> case of "//"?

That wasn't exactly what I was thinking.  I used three for emphasis, but
meant that one or more initial slashes would be treated as a single initial
slash.

It is the Friday before a long weekend and I might be completely brain-dead,
but I don't remember a special significance to '//' in UNIX.