Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 21:31:50 -0400
From: "William G. Dubuque" <wgd AT martigny DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu>
To: cwolff AT slowboy DOT intellistor DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: several questiond from new user

  But why he asks.... I have only recently gotten Demacs running (uEmacs
  finally ran out steam....), so I don't claim to be an expert.... Why
  does emacs throw everything up to the // away??? P'haps just making the
  path name /c:src/djgpp or /c:/src/djgpp would be sufficient....

When Emacs is reading a file name in the minibuffer it usually inserts
as default input the default directory for the current buffer - which
includes a trailing '/'. If this path is not what you want you can
type a '/' at this point and everything before the '/' you typed will
be ignored. This is a convenience feature for rapidly throwing away the
default directory when it isn't what you want. See read-file-name in
minibuf.el for the implementation.