From: utzoo!decvax!cca!CHUQUI@Mit-Mc@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Down with files that begin with a dot
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3897
Posted: Wed Oct 20 05:43:31 1982
Received: Wed Oct 20 12:07:40 1982

From: Charles F Von Rospach <CHUQUI@Mit-Mc>
Date: 16 October 1982 21:26-EDT
To put my two bits into the discussion, I think there is a lot 
more to this problem than simply which is 'neater'.

I program on 4.1BSD. More than that, I am really the system administrator
on the system. Besides the already mentioned problem of du and all those
extra directories, there is setting up accounts, explaining things to
naive users, and keeping track of things. Putting .login, .profile, and
 .cshrc (among others)into '...' or 'system-files' sounds nice, but I 
really don't know how it would work operationally. My personal feeling
is that if you spend a lot of time in your home directory (where all
these neat things live), then you aren't using the file system properly
anyway, so who cares?
chuck (chuqui at mit-mc)