the directories result

[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

Ray G. Miller writes: 

> Metacardians, 
> 
> 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? 
> 
> I'm running Mac 9.2.2 with MC 2.4.3.
> --  
> 
> 
> Ray G. Miller
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> Turtlelips Productions 
>
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I am no authority on MC directories, but I suspect on WIN systems that the 
".." is a hold over from the DOS environmnet. The ".." represents the 
immediately next higher directory. For example, if you are in the following 
directory: 

C:\myFiles\XTalk\MC 

If you type at the DOS prompt 

cd.. 

you will then be in this directory: 

C:\myFiles\XTalk 

miscdas