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'. ;) > Best, :-) > Marko Regards, Timo