Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 13:40

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In article <727@rtbrain.woodside.ca.us> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)  
writes:

>  I do have to point out that Edit, a NeXT application, requires you to
>  name files ".pipedict" and ".commanddict" to use its extensible menus,
>  which adds to the crud.  The "vacation" program accounts for a few, the
>  Csh for a lot more, /bin/mail, NewsGrazer, aaaaargh.

I definitely have a whole lot more '.' files in my home directory than regular  
files, but it is better than having visible files in there.  Of course, you  
could load up the defaults database...  ;-)

andrew
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Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings

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Subject: Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations
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