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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <1410054@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 01:33:57 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> Agreed.  I also never understood the reasons for having a true
> directory entry for ".." and ".". 
> -- 
> Mark Gooderum			Only...		\    Good Cheer !!!

That is so the programs in Unix which work with directories (e.g. ls)
do not have to have special code to deal with "." and "..".
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