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Re: archive normal form

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From: Rodney Peck II
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 20:20
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In article <20665.Jun2617.26.1691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
[...]
>So it's best to have any number of fields, each meaning ``give this
>field to cd'', and then a final field meaning ``get this.'' A name like
>pub/foo/bar reflects this perfectly: cd pub, cd foo, get bar. Similarly,
>a simple name like readme.txt means don't do any cd's, just get bar.
>
>---Dan

Except there are some sites which won't let you cd to the dirs inbetween.
You have to give the full dir path at once.  How does the format handle
that?  

You could try to cd to the first one, and then try to cd to the whole thing
(or more likely, the other way around).

-- 
Rodney
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