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Subject: dired: how to open the containing directory,
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hi there

in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often want 
to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired buffer 
the cursor is on a line like

  -rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas

then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired buffer. 
is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows about a 
appropriate add-on?

thanks a lot, oliver