On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Hans Meine wrote:
> a leading dot does not start an
> extension, but marks a file as "hidden". The latter is on UNIX, and while
On Unix - I mean in the OS itself - there are no such things as "roots",
"extensions" and "hidden files". All these are only conventions in the user
programs.
The current behaviour is not a bug in a strict sense, but it is
inconvenient and hence should be changed.
> this is different on Windows, I cannot imagine that anyone would
> a) have dotfiles under that OS
I have. (-: I often copy files from an ext3 partition to a FAT partition
on my dual-booting desktop.
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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