[TUHS] UNIX Backslash History

[Anthony Martin]

Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> once said:
> >dir1>dir2>file1	-- absolute: /dir1/di2/file1
> file1			-- relative: if >dir1>dir2 is the working dir
> <file2			-- relative: ../file2 == >dir1>file2
> <dir3>file4		-- ../dir3/file3
> <<dir4>file5		-- ../../dir4/file5 == >dir4>file5
> 
> << is more compact thant ../.. and I like the vertical symmetry of < and >!

"Getting Less Than Right" would have been an
interesting title. ;)

Unix uses dot for the current directory. Was
there any notation for this in Multics?

  Anthony