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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
Message-ID: <8094@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 9 May 89 00:54:14 GMT
References: <19502@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <19502@adm.BRL.MIL> nvt9001@belvoir-emh3.army.mil (DoN Nichols) writes:
... (about a new mkdir) ...
 > one were within communication range.)  Anyway, next time I ran vchk, it
 > started spitting out lots of complaints about "entries for '.' and '..'
 > screwed up!".  A check with od showed that the two entries were
 > exchanged, so that '..' was before '.'.
No bug in the new mkdir but in vchk.  In Unix V6 . and .. where interchanged
for the root directory with respect to other directories.
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