Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 11:32:00 EST
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:02:45 +0100 (MET), Thomas Tornblom wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely *NO* reason to have files starting with the period.
>
>I beg to differ, at least from a unix perspective.
And even from a modern MacOS perspective. Norton should have long ago
removed that paranoid warning. Just last week when I upgraded Eudora to
4.0.2, it installed a ".Keyboard" file. From memory, at one point MacOS
files beginning with "." were exclusively drivers and other files
beginning with "." could confuse it. That's no longer the case. At the
moment, I have lots of "." files on my MacOS partitions (and, of course,
on my LinuxPPC partition and my other Unix boxes).
>
>>
>> Period.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>
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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693
Greenbelt, MD 20770
schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov
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