kdf;201877 Wrote: 
> The double-dot was of course a typo.  This old ibook tends to double or
> triple the . key and miss shift keys a lot these days.

Aha.

> the dots are nicely put into context by a simple 'ls -a'. the resulting
> list of files starts with '.' and '..' which refer to the current
> directory and the parent directory respectively.
> -kdf

I see that a lot with all the Linux GUI programs, where you have "./"
and "../" at the top of file lists.  And of course if you want to go up
one directory level, "cd .."


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