On Monday 05 April 2004 02:32, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > Christian Iversen wrote on Mon, 5 Apr 2004 02:12:05 +0200: > > Just a thought. Who on this list does NOT support "..." instead of metas? > > Windows has that as the parent of the parent directory.
Not consistently - i.e only in Win2K and newer. DOS/Win9x used "dir ..." for "show me all directories". > I also use it as the second parent directory in a file system that allows > multiple parents, .... is the third parent directory, and so on. But that > doesn't really matter since nobody's making much use of multiple parents > yet. And it would be perfectly possible to access that same dir by ../.. still, wouldn't it? :) -- Regards, Christian Iversen
