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From: "Vladimir Grodzenski" <grodzens@capway.com>
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On 3 Jun 98 at 12:45, Gordon Peterson wrote:
> > I would also vote against filtering out "." and ".."; dir() should return an
> > accurate representation of what is in the directory,
>
> Oh, jeez... I don't see ANY value in returning "." at least, whether
> it's "there" (for OS purposes) or not. What's the point, after
> all???
By the way,
When you open(dirname) in Icon you'll get the list of files and
directories, including "." and ".."
The 'dirname' may be any valid "d:\\dir" string except the root!!!
However open("d:\.") will provide the list in the root directory. All
this is logical but far from being elegant :-)
Vladimir Grodzenski
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