Ian Reinhart Geiser on Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:41:15 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] .directory files


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On Friday 27 September 2002 04:42 pm, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 11:27 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > > > its hidden from a normal ls, or directory view... but not hidden
> > > > enough to keep it from people who really dont want it there.
> > >
> > > Wait, these file are named directory_name.directory, not just
> > > .directory.  They show up when I do a normal ls, and also in
> > > Konqueror when the display of hidden files is suppressed.  (kde
> > > 2.2)
> >
> > Thats cool, never seen that before, are you sure that was made by
> > KDE? unless its an older kde 2.x thing.  I have not seen anything
> > beyond a .directory since i can remember, but I can only test back to
> > KDE 2.2.2 here.
> >
> > Where did you find this file?
>
> They are located in the parent directory of the subdirectory of their
> namesake.  So if you have a directory called Documents containing only
> a subdirectory called personal, an ls of Documents would list the
> following:
> personal  personal.directory
>
> Just a half hour ago, up2date completed an update which included some
> kde libs, so I now have 2.2.2-2.  I'm not sure what 2.2.x-x I had
> yesterday and before, when these files were created.
oh you are using RHs fork... then all bets are off, since they have patches to 
KDE that we dont know about.  I just checked my KDE 2.2.2 install here, on my 
X-Term server and i dont have that, so it must be a RH feature.

Sorry
- -ian reinhart geiser
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