From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ron@Brl@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Files beginning with .
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4033
Posted: Mon Oct 25 02:28:49 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 06:13:26 1982

From:     Ron Natalie <ron@Brl>
Date:     22 Oct 82 4:01:41-EDT (Fri)
If you don't want to have all these files to look at in your
home directory (it seems that beginning with . or otherwise
things always end up there) you might try what I do.  Put a
chdir in your .profile so you live somewhere other than your
home directory by default.

-Ron