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  • From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Mining the Archive
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:06:43 +1030

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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