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Subject: Re: X-DOS: anybody knows about it? (small free DOS)
Date: 6 Aug 2000 16:22:17 -0500
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Especially if you are in a networked environment, where Netware (for
example) has a "show dots off" command which kills the dots.

Thanks!
Phil


Johan Henriksson (jhe AT realsoftware DOT cjb DOT net) wrote:
: >>That would be wrong: it is not guaranteed that the first two entries are 
: >>"." and ".." (although in practice I never saw anything else).  
: >I thought the ``.'' and ``..'' entries were created when the directory
: >is created and are thus the first two entries in the directory.


: This is true for FATx (not root) and IIRC Ext2. But it is not always true.