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Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations

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From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:24
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In article <CNH5730.92Apr12170622@calvin.tamu.edu>
cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles N. Herrick) writes:

> What happened to the *.app approach? You hide your files in the
> directory which appears as *.app in your file viewer.
> 
> Isn't this sufficient?


We are talking about where to store files for *each user*.
Obviously, storing crud for 50 users who might share a particular app
into the *.app is a bad idea.
*.app is there to hold files that do not change over time and those
shared by all users.

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