<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">So now I see that v1 had hierarchical path names. I thought that came in v2. I stand corrected.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM Douglas McIlroy <<a href="mailto:douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu">douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_origin_of_dot_filename.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_origin_of_dot_filename.html</a> says<br>
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> I'm not sure but I believe .. went in during the Version 2 rewrite<br>
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.. was there from the beginning. The v1 man page directory(v) says,<br>
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> By convention, the first two entries in each directory are for "." and "..".<br>
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Doug<br>
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