28 Oct
2019
28 Oct
'19
3:51 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 2:31 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Charles
Anthony
/home/CAnthony
I think it was >user_dir_dir>Group>User, wasn't it? I seem to remember my
homedir on MIT-Multics was >udd>CSR>JNChiappa?
user_dir_dir>Project>User user_dir_dir Home directories of users
daemon_dir_dir Home directories of daemons
process_dir_dir /proc
"Names" are aliases, similar to soft links; "udd" is a name for
"user_dir_dir" so ">udd" and ">user_dir_dir" point to
the same directory.
user_dir_dir>SysAdmin>admin or
>udd>sa>a is ~root/
Circulating back to the original question, backslash is used as an escape
character on Multics. "\f" is end-of-file-ish, used eg to leave input mode
in text editors.
-- Charles
And I wonder if the 'dd' directory on PDP-7 Unix owe anything to
'udd'?
Getting back to the original query, I'm wondering if '/' was picked
as it wasn't shifted, unlike '>'?
Noel
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