On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, J Busser wrote:
They are not hidden, meaning if I cd into .gnumed, the command ls will show
them, I don't need to add the -a.
Well, but they are in a hidden directory ".gnumed" which was the
intention.
Are the files *supposed* to be hidden?
No - just living in a hidden directory.
Are users not intended to be modifying their config file
~/.gnumed/gnumed.conf or are they intended to be able to know or figure out
that these are hidden, but that it is OK to modify them anyway?
Putting the files in a hidden directory has only one reason: Keep
people away who are not knowing what they are doing. You can not
hide any information from other people. It's more like: Do not
make Joe Normaluser curious about these strange logfiles / config
files if he is browsing the file in his home directory. Not more
not less.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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