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From: "Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To: <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "Andy Eskilsson" <x-aes AT telelogic DOT se>,
        "DJGPP WORKERS" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: basht6.zip has been uploaded
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 06:56:44 +0900
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > Can you explain how does this work?  I don't know anything about
``triple
> > or more dots'' in Windows 95.
> 
> Each aditional dot moves you up another directory (.=current, ..=parent,
> ...=granparent, ....=greatgrandparent etc). Of course, if you give too
> many dots for your current directory level, you get an 'invalid
> directory' error.

In bash case, over dots are silently discarded. Then you get root directory
on the current drive. (this difference will be changed)

> 
> unfortuanly, the tripple dots break the directory tree expansion, don't
> they?

At least ported bash knows more dots, you can also use dir/file completion
with readline.

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp