> 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