Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Tony & (stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 11:16:25 EST
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:02:45AM +0100, Thomas Tornblom wrote:
> Care to enlighten us as to why this is bad?
Under MacOS, files starting with a . are a hint that the file is a
device driver.
Under Unix, they are supposed to be invisible to normal user
interaction.
> A unix filename can contain any character with the exception of "/" and <null>
> and the OS couldn't care less.
Correct. The problem isn't technical, it's social.
-- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu "When I was young, the sky was filled with stars. I watched them burn out one by one." -Warren Zevon
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