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On Apr 28, 2019, at 4:47 AM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I suspect the "dot file" convention came later, as a side-effect of observ=
ed behavior of ls.

This could=E2=80=99ve been avoided if there was a convention about
where to store per user per app settings & possibly state. On
one of my Unix machines I have over 200 dotfiles.=20=