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Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations

#1404
From: Jayson Adams
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:58
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In article <1992Apr12.044524.6755@proponent.com> Monty Solomon  
<monty%roscom@think.com> writes:
> 
> From the NeXT UI Guidelines:
> 
>  	If the user never needs to get at the files or folders
> independently of using the application that creates them, they should be
> placed in the user's home folder but preceded by a dot prefix so they
> stay hidden from view.

Sounds great in theory, some users will be forced to see these damn files  
and folders (does preferring UNIX Expert mode suddenly not make me a  
user?).  This guideline should be reexamined and changed.

__jayson
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From: jayson@asw.com (Jayson Adams)
Subject: Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations
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