Bob McConnell wrote: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: >>>>> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: >>>>>> Hi >>>>>> >>>>>> I have this . folder under tmp >>>>> It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch >>>>> that. >>>> Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one else >>>> here was ever new to Linux. >>> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not Linux-only. >>> The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's. And they still exist, >>> actually. The problem is that today people working under Windows [7|Vista|XP] >>> never get to open a terminal anymore, and various GUI's play smart with them >>> and don't show the links to current and parent directories. >> Sure, but: Nobody's guilty *not* to have seen this stuff in her/his >> whole life just because she/he never looked at it. There may be multiple >> reasons for that, one of them may be a simple 'I was born in 1996 and >> never had the chance to work with CP/M'. ;) > > Never say "never". You still have the opportunity to work with CP/M, > either with custom built hardware or any of a number of good simulators > currently available on Source Forge. There is still an active Usenet > newsgroup on the topic (comp.os.cpm), with hardware being designed and > new kits being sold. Almost all of the source code is now available at > <http://www.cpm.z80.de/>. Sorry: s/had the chance/was forced to/g I still run IRIX, even NeXTSTEP -- just for fun; I run AIX on my personal workstation. So, if there's anybody out there willing to have a look at well designed/funny/whatever operating systems... ;) > Bob McConnell > N2SPP Timo