Re: LYNX-DEV dired "../"

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Jon Schewe wrote:

> Is there a way to make it so that when a user goes into dired they don't see
> "../"?  I've made a hack to do it, but I'm not real proud of it.  The deal 
> here
> is that when our users want to edit files they can only get at a subdirectory
> of their home directory and this is good.  We also don't let them see dot
> files, so they shouldn't see "../".  Everything was fine with lynx-2.6, but
> lynx-2.7 with fotemods shows "../" and people are removing it because they
> think it's a file that is just taking up space.  When they do that it removes
> all their directories and we need to recreate the directory structure, since
> they don't have shell access.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Does NO_PARENT_DIR_REFERENCE not work?  See the Makefile.  Read the
comments there.

   Klaus

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