From: utzoo!utcsrgv!ralph
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Down with files that begin with a dot
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.598
Posted: Tue Oct 12 10:40:31 1982
Received: Tue Oct 12 11:32:45 1982
References: watmath.3612

I agree with Brad Templeton.
Lets get rid of all these files starting with a '.' and put them
into a separate directory.
Amdahl sells a UNIX emulator called UTS, at the University of Toronto
this has been bastardized into something called BICS (you don't want
to know what this is).  Anyway, BICS is BAD, but, BICS does not have
all these stupid '.' files.  It has a directory called '...' (sigh), 
where all of the '.' files go.  It works quite nice, but the
name could be a lot better.
I don't know who had the idea, it could have been Amdahl or it could
have been UTCS (University of Toronto Computing Services), but in
either case, I am embarassed.  UTCS has a BAD case of IBM-itis 
(in fact BICS replaced cards for undergrads this fall) and we know
what Amdahl does.  How is it that these people can tell us how to 
make UNIX better?