Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Charles H. Seraphine (cse@bruce.engr.ucf.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 14:57:26 EST
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Juergen Christoffel wrote:
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:12:38 -0700
> From: Harry Zink <mail-atalk@fizbin.com>
>
> This is bad under any UNIX file system, this is also bad under the
> Macintosh file system.
>
> Huh, what are you talking about? Almost all rc files under Unix start with
> a period. So I'd say this is fine under the Unix operating system.
Bad in the sense that it makes the "invisible", which is generally only
the norm for non-working files (rc's, configs, whatever).
> P.S. The only thing I'd call "bad" is the bad design of a filesystem which
> denies us the right to use all of the printing characters (e.g. ':') in
> filenames without any need for such a restriction.
There is indeed a good need for this-- the colon is the path delimiter,
just like / in Unix. Check the get info on a file or alias, or look into
AppleScript to see this in action. (Your trash can: "hard drive:Desktop
Folder:Trash")
-Chip
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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