Well with all the packing going on I really haven’t had a chance to use the Macbook too much the past few days. Tonight I did sit down to do a little programming. I was working on something that needs an .htaccess file which is, in this case, a way to tell the web server what to do before it looks for the actual files or location you’ve requested. Like in the case of say web program that allows you to do a search for books a nasty URL might look like: /search.php?autherLastName=King&catagory=horror&year=1987 if you create some htaccess rules you can make the same url look like /search/king/horror/1987 and the rule will tell the web server to pass the variables king, horror, 1987 to the search.php script. I am over simplifying since I am guess most of you could careless.
Anyway Mac’s hide all files that start with a ‘.’ since these are usually system files. So I did some searching and found a way to show the hidden files, but it was a pain. Then I found a site that shows you how to automate the exact same actions using the Automator application that comes with OS X. Now it’s a snap to show or hide hidden files. It was very cool to learn something new.
– Jeremy
yeah linux hides all . files too.
I don’t think Windows allows a ., rather forcing .