Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Thomas Tornblom (Thomas.Tornblom@Hax.SE)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 04:02:45 EST
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> Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
> From: Harry Zink <mail-atalk@fizbin.com>
> To: "David Casti" <david@casti.com>, <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
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> >How do I get files starting with . to show up when I mount a volume on my
>
> You should *NOT* have files starting with the period character.
>
> This is bad under any UNIX file system, this is also bad under the
> Macintosh file system.
>
> This will be just as bad under Mac OS X, which is UNIX based, and you
> won't be able to patch.
>
> Avoid it.
Care to enlighten us as to why this is bad?
A unix filename can contain any character with the exception of "/" and <null>
and the OS couldn't care less.
There are filenames that are harder so use than others with some tools, i.e.
name globbing, filenames starting with "-", filenames containing " ", but there
is nothing inherently bad about them.
Files starting with "." is common if you don't want them to clutter up "ls"
listings.
>
> Norton even alerts you that you have files starting with he period, as
> being bad.
>
> There is absolutely *NO* reason to have files starting with the period.
I beg to differ, at least from a unix perspective.
>
> Period.
>
> Harry
>
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