On May 23, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Craig A. Finseth wrote: > ... > In other words, the path to the current working directory is "./" > ... > > Yes. And > > ../ > > points to the parent. When you get all the way to the root, ../ = ./ Which has no relevance if the program is executed from an arbitrary directory outside the directory which contains the two aforementioned files... ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks