[euroderf]

> Implementing Mac compatible file support in Unix meant treating the resource fork first class and the obvious way you do it is for each file have .file beside it.

Prefixing the file name with a single dot - is this a file system convention ? Or just a "good idea" ?

[ggm]

Unix convention to hide. .Files hidden from ls unless -a used but cd .config/ works fine. It matched the use of . For "this dir" and .. for "parent dir" also hidden by default. It was in v7 on a pdp11, my first experience of Unix in 1980. Probably pre-dated that.

[euroderf]

Oh sure. I started with v6 on a pdp-10 in 1979. And the leading dot is ingrained in my brain.

But what I'm wondering about is the idea of associating (for example) "myfile.xyz" and ".myfile.xyz". I've never heard of this as a convention for associating metadata.

[mmaniac]

Prefixing the filename with ._ is Finder convention whenever you copy metadata to a filesystem which doesn't support resource forks, like FAT32