the directories result

[Richard Gaskin]

Ray G. Miller wrote:

> When doing a "put the directories into theList" command, the first line
> of theList is  always ".." (that's two periods).
> 
> Just what does the ".." stand for and does it happen on Win OS?

This seems common to all platforms within MC, borrowed from Unix
conventions:

  ../  = up one level

  ./   = current directory

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