>
> It makes sense when you say that the . & the .. are references to the
> hierarchical previous & current directory. My question is a reference to a
> previous directory is explainable but why would you need a reference to a
> CWD? I don't mean to pull this any longer but I'm unclear about this.
>
Try thinking from the machine's point of view (ok, not that the
machine has a point of view!), how do you refer to a file in the CWD?

Abishek
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