Hi, I thought about this bug.
Family trees can have many themes. One might encompass all direct descendants of a single figure, or all known ancestors of a living person. Another might include all members of a particular surname (e.g. male-line descendants). Yet another approach is to construct a tree including all holders of a certain office, such as kings of Germany. This relies on dynastic marriage to hold together the links between dynasties. (Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree ) So I put qualifier to family tree. - The root directory has a number of branches, such as "`/etc/`" and "`/usr/`". These subdirectories in turn branch into still more subdirectories, such as "`/etc/init.d/`" and "`/usr/local/`". The whole thing viewed collectively is called the **directory tree**. You can think of an absolute filename as a route from the base of the tree ("`/`") to the end of some branch (a file). You also hear people talk about the directory tree as if it were a **family** tree encompassing all direct descendants of a single figure called the root directory ("`/`"): thus subdirectories have **parents**, and a path shows the complete ancestry of a file. There are also relative paths that begin somewhere other than the root directory. You should remember that the directory "`../`" refers to the parent directory. This terminology also applies to other directory like structures, such as hierarchical data structures. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
