title: Relative pathing syntax involving dot-dot-slash
body: <p>I saw this statement while looking up relative pathing for ant and was quite bewildered:</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;pathelement location="../../../../../../programs/jdk1.5.0/lib/tools.jar"/&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>I know that <code>..</code> refers to going up one directory, so my guess is that the <code>../../../../../../</code> portion is referencing up six directories, but I'm at a loss for what purpose it serves.</p>