On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, pAb-032871 wrote: >On many FTP servers, you may notice two "directories" [I think They _are_ directories. >that's what they are] in every listing, named "." and ".." Entering >"." puts you in the current directory [possibly a refreshed listing?], >and ".." moves you up one directory. The system might put these >here automatically for some reason, I don't know much about it. They are simply directory entries. ".." refers up one, and "." is the current directory.. (Hmm, I was thinking that ".." may be a soft link to the upper directory, but I guess not.. I was thinking it was then maybe a hard link... /tmp % mkdir blah /tmp % cd blah /tmp/blah % rm .. rm of .. is not allowed /tmp/blah % rm -r .. rm of .. is not allowed (Laugh In voice:) Verrry interrrrrresting.. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
