. and .. directories
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In FAT12 & FAT16, every directory has a . and a .. subdirectory. I seem to remember that this goes back to the old MSDOS days. Anyone know what they are or what they are for? I'm building an embedded system to read Compact Flash cards and I've got most of the other data about FAT tables etc, but I can't find a refernece to these two directories. Any ideas? Cheers, Ali
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In FAT12 & FAT16, every directory has a . and a .. subdirectory. I seem to remember that this goes back to the old MSDOS days. Anyone know what they are or what they are for? I'm building an embedded system to read Compact Flash cards and I've got most of the other data about FAT tables etc, but I can't find a refernece to these two directories. Any ideas? Cheers, Ali
The "." directory is used to reference the current directory, while the ".." directory is used to reference the parent directory of the current directory. Chris Richardson C/C++ Include Finder[^]