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

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