> The programmer then strips the first two items from the string list with the
> assumption being that these will always be '.' and '..' directories.
> Safe assumption?

I'm not sure that it is... Better to check for filenames of '.' or '..' 

I don't know that there's a guarentee that these are first in the list... Although
they're likely to be first or last, since they're OS synthesized entries aren't
they...

> (I will probably just change the FindFirst to return
> faAnyFiles-faDirectories which also works but just wondered..)

As long as you don't want other directories...

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