From: utzoo!decvax!cca!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Files that begin with dot
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3946
Posted: Thu Oct 21 23:53:35 1982
Received: Sat Oct 23 00:57:30 1982

From:     Chris Torek <chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Date:     19 Oct 82 05:41:00 EDT  (Tue)
What's all the fuss?  If you want all your .files to show use
alias ls 'ls -A' (cap-A means all but . and ..).  Putting them
in a "dotfiles" directory is just hiding them, which is done by
the dot!  It somehow seems the same to me.  (Actually, I couldn't
care less where the files went.  I think maybe the reason no
one uses a directory is because you have to be priveleged to
actually create one (via "mknod") without using fork() and exec().
Any uid can create a file.)
					- Chris