{"id":92953,"date":"2016-02-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=92953"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:29:51","slug":"20160202-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160202-00\/?p=92953","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the ability to use &#8230; (three dots) to refer to the grandparent directory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows&nbsp;95, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/04\/03\/8352719.aspx#8361313\">you could type <code>cd ...<\/code> to go up two directories<\/a>, or <code>cd ....<\/code> to go up three directories, and so on. (You could also use triple-dots in paths passed to functions like <code>Create&shy;File<\/code>.) Where did this come from? <\/p>\n<p>This interpretation of dots beyond two was introduced in Windows&nbsp;95 for compatibility with the Novell NetWare redirector. Windows&nbsp;95 came with a native Novell NetWare client, and one of the quirks of the Novell NetWare client is that it supported this <i>dots beyond two<\/i> feature. For compatibility, therefore, Windows&nbsp;95 supported it as well. The parsing of the dots was done inside the Windows&nbsp;95 installable file system component, so it was available to all file systems, not just NetWare volumes, but the intended audience for the feature was Novell NetWare clients. <\/p>\n<p>Windows&nbsp;NT didn&#8217;t pick up this feature because, well, I don&#8217;t know. Maybe they thought it was a yucky hack. Actually, thinking more on it, it&#8217;s probably <code>...<\/code> is a legal NT file name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old NetWare compatibility hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-92953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>An old NetWare compatibility hack.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}