[Gnumed-devel] Re: gnumed.conf

[Andreas Tille]

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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