diff --git a/build/proto b/build/proto
index 24e9c6a..915b33e 100644
--- a/build/proto
+++ b/build/proto
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ dd           drwr- -1 4
 
         nsh      frwr- -1 bin/nsh
         nls      frwr- -1 bin/nls
+	list     l---- -1
 #       nbc      frwr- -1 bin/nbc
         nstat    frwr- -1 bin/nstat
 
 
-
   $
     ken      drwr- 10
       system l----  3
diff --git a/tools/mkfs7 b/tools/mkfs7
index aef67a2..ac6775e 100755
--- a/tools/mkfs7
+++ b/tools/mkfs7
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ my $nextinum   = 1;	# i-num 0 is never used
 my @Dirstack;	# Stack of directories. Each value is a ref
                 # to a [ blocknum, offset, inum ] array which
                 # is the next free position in the directory
+my $lastinum   = -1;	# last inum assigned, for link to i-num -1
 
 # Debug printing
 sub dprint {
@@ -277,6 +278,8 @@ sub add_block_to_inode {
 sub add_direntry {
     my ( $name, $inum ) = @_;
 
+    $inum = $lastinum if ($inum == -1);
+
     # Get the block and offset to the next empty slot in the directory
     my $dirref = $Dirstack[-1];
 
@@ -320,6 +323,7 @@ sub add_direntry {
 
     # Finally, increment the link count
     increment_link_count($inum);
+    $lastinum = $inum;
 }
 
 # Given a name, perms, a user-id and an optional i-node number, make a
@@ -360,8 +364,11 @@ sub make_dir {
     if (!$no_dd) {
       add_direntry( "dd", $Dirstack[0]->[2] );
       dprintf("Added a dd entry to i-num %d\n", $Dirstack[0]->[2] );
+      if (!$wantdotdot && !$wantdot) {	# PLB 2019
+	add_direntry( "..", $inum );
+	dprint("Added a .. entry to ourselves\n");
+      }
     }
-
     dprintf( "Made directory %s perms %06o uid %d in inum %d\n\n",
         $dirname, $perms, $uid, $inum );
 }