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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: [.] and [..] keep showing up in root directory
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.070930.6480@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:09:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Nov18.070930.6480
- References: <ioL5TB2w165w@dat1hb.north.de> <wiegand.721948311@lido16>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <wiegand.721948311@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) writes:
-
- [Daniel says "." and ".." shows up in HPFS root directory]
-
- >These are supposed to be there. I'm not sure what you did to make them
- >visible, but they were always there. The single dot "." is for the directory
- >information, and the double dot ".." has information on the parent directory.
- >For the root directory there is no parent.
- >
- >Thats why specifying "." in a command such as "copy b: ." gives you the
- >current directory. Specifying ".." such as "cd .." gives you the parent
- >directory.
- >
- >I would suspect you just changed the atributes on these from hidden to
- >normal, which would explain why they are showing up in you directory.
-
- The "." and ".." are supposed to visible in the HPFS root directory.
-
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- >motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- >Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
-
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