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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:46:46 +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:

> No.   You should find it in /root
> and its name is :     .xinitrc     notice the "." as the first character of 
> its 
> name.

Once I had a clue as to where to look, mc found it, but with a * in
front of the name. Then I used mc's internal editor to add the line
required.

It works!

> DOS doesn't allow that, but Linux does, and it denotes (correct me if I 
> don't 
> get this exactly right) a file that is exclusively for the use of the owner 
> of 
> the directory - in this case "root".

Is that what it means!

I wish that book would hurry up. There is so much I need to know.

And there is stuff where I don't know enough to frame the questions.



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