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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: The home directory of root (free advice)
Message-ID: <HANCHE.91Jan29120112@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Date: 29 Jan 91 11:01:12 GMT
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Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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Here is a piece of ABSOLUTELY FREE advice:  Change the home directory
of root from "/" to "/.".  That way, all those programs like emacs et
al who like to append "/.some-file-name" to $HOME can do so without
the file ending up in // and making trouble there.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY