I'm using Creo 4 and what I'm provided is just a single "dot" directory, which is pretty useless as far as navigation goes - it just keeps the working directory where it currently is.
I don't see a "double-dot" directory which is conventionally the next directory up in the structure. That would be useful, I suppose.
I'm very confused. I just checked Wildfire 5.0, Creo Parametric 3.0, 4.0, 7.0, and 8.0, and none of them are showing a folder with a single dot. Is there possibly a config option that is making this appear??? I'm running Windows 10.
@TomU I find that @RadovanMíček is correct, I was doing a "Select Working Directory" operation when I saw that. But really, the only time I ever do any directory switching and such is via File -> Manage Session -> Select Working Directory.
I guess if I were bored I could just keep hitting the dot over and over? I don't know. It's a weird convention that is also seen on Unix based systems, where instead of typing 'program_name" you type "./program_name" to run something. Probably something from the annals of past computing, where it was illegal to have nothing specified for a directory?
Looks like it is just a convenient way to select the directory currently displayed if you had clicked on a subdirectory but want to use the current directory. Otherwise you would have to go up one and select it from there.
the "dot folder" has no obvious function. It confuses the users of Norton commander, Total commander, Free Commander and many more file managers, where they use it to skip one level above.
IMHO it would make sense either to get rid of it, or to give it the same function.
The function in both cases is to select the current directory if you have selected one of the other subdirectories. Not a big time saver, but eliminates the need to go up one level to select the directory.
