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Re: lynx-dev persistent cookies
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev persistent cookies |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:11:53 +0100 (BST) |
>
> The way persistent cookies work in dev24 is to create a file named
> 'cookies' in whatever directory you are in when you start lynx, not
> specifically the home directory.
That causes a namespace pollution problem. Conventionally Unix would:
- use . as the first character of the filename;
- follow that by something like lynx;
- if there were a large number of such files, use a directory called
something like .lynx
- almost always do this in the home directory.