Acmcl2.413 net.bugs.4bsd utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!zeppo!harpo!esquire!cmcl2!salkind Wed Mar 31 01:53:18 1982 nami misfeature retraction Looks like I blew it. In the "The Unix Time-Sharing System" paper it says "As another limiting case, the null file name refers to the current directory." Not what I expected but you can't argue with THE source. How embarrassing! Thanks to rabbit!ark and research!dmr for pointing this out to me. Lou Salkind cmcl2!salkind ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.