Ah, my memory fails me, mostly due to too much time on Unipress machines in the 1980's.
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Whereas I agree that the leading-dot convention ought to be buried, in >> reality (a) it is not going to just go away and (b) if it was so >> readily accepted, it must have fulfilled a need. > > There is no "leading dot" convention in Plan 9. > That's in BSD-derived UNIX, and it's the result of an simplified hack in ls, > which was fixed in Seventh Edition. > If you can open it, it's obviously not "hidden": it's just inconvenient to > use with grep *.
