Re: how should remote path names be handled?

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From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 16:48:27 PDT
In-Reply-To:  weber@eitech.com (Jay C. Weber)
       "Re:  how should remote path names be handled?" (Apr 22,  3:33pm)
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I'm not following this discussion in detail, but one issue I dont see addressed
is that the root of the tree will mean different things depending on the
application - for example ftp:/pub/fred is not the same as the file /pub/fred
or gopher:/pub/fred since both ftp and gopher interpret paths relative to 
a base address passed to the server.

- Mitra