[Rd] Question about Unix file paths

[Peter Kleiweg]

# aldus Duncan Murdoch :

> In Unix-like systems, is it *always* safe to add a slash between a
> pathname and a filename?

Not if the path is empty:

    '' + '/' + 'file'  -> /file

is not the same as:

    '' + 'file'  -> file


Doubling of a slash has no effect (at least on Linux and HP-UX)
unless you are using kpsetools.



-- 
Peter Kleiweg