Hi Eli,
> The path separators in Unix are "/" instead of "\" as they are in Windows.
Agreed. It shows M$ always wanted to be backwards.
> Apart from that, "/" has absolutely no special meaning, certainly not that
> anything preceded by "/" is to be a filename.
Really ? Didn't I see something in Linux documentation about
/etc/aliases stating anything beginning with / means a file-path ? For
example a file rather than a mailbox ?