[261] in Athena Bugs
scribe thesis suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gumby@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 26 08:15:17 1988
From: <gumby@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 88 08:14:41 EDT
To: henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Henry Mensch's message of Sat, 16 Apr 88 20:20:52 EDT <8804170021.AA03107@garp.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 88 20:20:52 EDT
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>It would be great if the files we "don't have to worry about" (ie the
>ones which are not modified by we thesers) were called .foo, so that
>they wouldn't show up in ls listings.
It is unclear why this would be a good and useful thing to do. Can you
offer a rationale?
When I first brought over the scribe thesis files I was sort of
overwhelmed by the number of things in there. I really only had to
look at chapter.mss, etc but that wasn't immediately apparent to me.
I don't think this is a major issue, but if only the files that the
user had to edit were visible it would help naive non-scribers like me
figure out what we had to do.
Alternatively, were the files not in my directory at all, but only in
some system directory which scribe searched, I'd be even happier.
Not a biggie.
Thanks
david.
PS: if I could get the message "You have mail" when I logged in that
would be dandy too.
-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
In general I think the quality level is most assuredly high.
