Subject: Re: bug#6706: 24.0.50; // in some UNIX paths in Makefiles

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:59:56 +0200

Am 22.07.2010 um 22:29 schrieb Jan Djärv:

> Does it matter in any way? POSIX dictates that two or more slashes,  
> when not at the start of the path, is to be treated as a single  
> slash.  Does NS/OSX treat them differently?

Mac OS X's HFS variants handle them à la POSIX. And NS Emacs as well.  
It's just not beautiful that they appear.

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