Re: [Bulk] Object link name of . and ..

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Y'all

These "directories" are also available on DOS systems - which ultimately 
were derived from Unix, IIRC, through things like the CP/M operating 
system - I think I heard that Kildahl reversed the slash from what Unix has.

So many "stories" about Gary Kildahl - one article says he came up with 
the concept of a BIOS - he focused on microcomputers.

If you go to a command prompt in windows and type "dir" you will likely 
see these at the top of the list there, as well.

Vern

On 11/4/2014 8:12 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
> Paul:
>
> By convention, all Unix systems have always created a "." and ".." 
> symbolic link in each directory, to allow for "short-cut" path names 
> when using a relative path (relative to the "current" cdirectory).    
> Since the IFS was ported from AIX, it also follows this convention, at 
> least as far as the IFS directories are concerned.
>
> The "," points to the current directory itself (the one it is in), and 
> the ".." always points to the "parent" directory ...  If you are in a 
> directory named:
>
>     /home/Paul
>
> the ".." will take you to the "/home" directory.
>
> This can get confusing, for example, if you are using WRKLNK, and 
> using option 5 to "drill down" on "." as it will (recursively) just 
> keep going and going ...
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Mark S. Waterbury
>
> > On 11/4/2014 9:06 AM, Paul Fenstermacher wrote:
> > On one of my systems I have an object link that is named simply . 
> > (that's a DOT), and another that is named .. (that's a DOT DOT).  
> > When I put a 5 on them my directory path at the top changes to /. or 
> > /..    Google isn't helping, any idea what these are and how they 
> > might have gotten there?
> >
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