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From: "Johan Henriksson" <jhe AT realsoftware DOT cjb DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: X-DOS: anybody knows about it? (small free DOS)
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 00:04:00 +0200
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>>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.