At 04:32 PM 12/27/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: >Robert Moskowitz <rgm at 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. >[ <resume=ON>I spent my college days as not only as the sole >Internet hostmaster/postmaster of a 15,000 employee >consulting engineering firm, but also it's sole OS/2 expert. >I also had IBM and Digital MIPS systems running AIX and Ultra >and, later, Digital Alpha 21064[A] and 21164 running Windows >NT, Digital UNIX, OpenVMS and, of course, Linux.</resume> ] And still there is work for us. The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.