At 04:32 PM 12/27/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
But HIDDEN???
Configuration files and directories in UNIX are almost _always_ "dot files." Files that begin with a dot are not shown if you do a list subdirectory (ls) without the all (-a) option.
Ah, what is in a name.
General semantics bitting me again. And I was always a fan of Van Vogt. I should know better.
Again, I said it before and I will say it again, UNIX and Windows are _radically_different_ beasts in many areas! When you say things like "But HIDDEN???" many of us UNIX users roll our eyes. Not because we think you are stupid or anything, but because you have been "programmed" that things are how they are in the Windows world.
Semantics are situational.
I have always kept my data organized by identity and have NEVER put anything in M$s pet directories.
That's because Microsoft's profile approaches are, and have _always_ been, _severely_broken_! The infighting and general and quite gross ignorance of the NT team by the single/home-user Chicago (95/98) team resulted in this.
And Fred quit after they 'ruined' his 'perfectly good' kernel.
But in the UNIX world, the use of the user's home directory -- the $HOME variable or commonly tilde (~) or tilde-user (~user) is pretty much an _absolute_.
After I install an app, I change its data directory settings. Been doing this since QUARTERDECK on 286s.
In UNIX, you want to _avoid_ doing that. Why? Because in the UNIX world -- _everyone_ knows that user settings go in the user's home directory.
Oh, in a Un*x world I would not move them out of the user's home directory. Just organize better by identity within home.
But then I wonder where I should put the music, as that would be for any user.
Or other 'shared' data: RFCs, IEEE specs, and whatnots.
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And still there is work for us.
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.