.Rprofile in 1.3.1 (os 10.1)

On 10 Nov 2001 20:12:18 -0500, David A Richmond wrote:

1) OS 10.1 doesn't let you name files that begin with a period '.' in the
Finder, or save them in programs such as BBedit. The only way to create a
file that begins with a period is to use the command line. (i.e. use
Terminal, and use the mv command: "mv filename .filename")

Under Mac OS 1/4/6/7/9, the ".file" form has a special meaning -- it
means a device driver.  So a Carbonized program like BBEdit would
assume this is a driver.

You should report this to BareBones, it's easy enough to fix if they
know where to look. 

This will probably be an issue for both versions of R for Mac OS X.
Not that I can volunteer Jan or Stefano's time, but it would be nice
if ordinary line input could auto-detect which format the file is in
and treat it accordingly 

2) R 1.3.1 carbon for mac OS 10/9 requires that the line breaks be
Macintosh line breaks and not Unix line breaks. Thus, a file such as
.Rprofile created and saved using pico will not work, as the line 
breaks
are unix and not mac.

This will probably be an issue for both versions of R for Mac OS X. Not 
that I can volunteer Jan or Stefano's time, but it would be nice if 
ordinary line input could auto-detect which format the file is in and 
treat it accordingly
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 MacStats@mac.com wrote:

On 10 Nov 2001 20:12:18 -0500, David A Richmond wrote:

1) OS 10.1 doesn't let you name files that begin with a period '.' in the
Finder, or save them in programs such as BBedit. The only way to create a
file that begins with a period is to use the command line. (i.e. use
Terminal, and use the mv command: "mv filename .filename")

Under Mac OS 1/4/6/7/9, the ".file" form has a special meaning -- it
means a device driver.  So a Carbonized program like BBEdit would
assume this is a driver.

You should report this to BareBones, it's easy enough to fix if they
know where to look.

It's not just bbedit, it seems to be pervasive; programs like BBedit and
Appleworks will dim and disable the save button when the filename begins
with a '.', TextEdit will let you click "save" but will then inform you
that you can't use the name. The Finder does a similar thing.