Replying to: rmalheiro AT mail.telepac DOT pt (Rui Malheiro) (Thu, 21 May 1998
10:28:59 GMT)

>>
>>      In place of 
>>
>>              EXCLUDE.DIR /test      
>>
>>      try (double slash)
>>
>>              EXCLUDE.DIR //test    
>>
>>      -richard-
>>
>
>And it worked. But as "//test" should be the same as "test" I also tried:
>   
>   EXCLUDE.DIR test
>
>which also works. It makes some sense, as I supose the "/" filesystem may be
>handled as an exception by dsm. But I belive that it would be better, for
>consistency sake, that we could reference first level directories with the
>starting "/".

I'll have to correct my last posting to the list. The actual way to exclude
top level directories is the one suggested by Richard, using "//dir". The
way I suggested not only excludes top level directories, but also every
directory with that name. 


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