What is . and .. in a directory?

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Published on 2009-09-08T01:08:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 14:22 UTC
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Based on the qestion How to make using command prompt less painful what is the . and .. in the most voted answer? I see it when i do a dir command but it isn't visible to the user in the form of a file. In case you dont know what I mean heres the example

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..

Su.exe

Sup.txt

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