Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 20:12:09 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? Message-ID: <199605070012.UAA17615@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 06 May 1996 16:27:20 EST. <199605062327.QAA22168@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > main stumbling block, though, is that clusters (other than the > > first directory cluster) will be missing '.' and '..' entries. > 2) "." and ".." are artifacts of the search interface, not > artifacts of directory structure contents in a FAT/VFAT/VFAT32 > file system. > ??? What does that mean, they're "artifacts of the search interface..." It's been years since I used MS-DOS enough to care about poking around in the file system with Norton Utilities, but as I recall "." and ".." are just like any other directory entry in a directory. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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