On 29 Dec 2001, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > I don't find it at all complex. > > Of course not, you came up with it :-) > > My point is, a normal user will not have read a description of how > this works. He will find a .$file and have no idea why and how. > Making the filename more self-documenting would help, IMHO. Well, the .$file can be a shell script. Shell scripts can have comments. Problem solved.