Re: Thunderbird 0.8 questions

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James Wilkinson wrote:
| Adam Boettiger wrote:
|
|>Right now I have it in USR/LOCAL/THUNDERBIRD
|
|
| One quick largely unrelated point that no-one else has mentioned:
|
| Unix is case sensitive. That's a completely different directory to
| usr/local/thunderbird. Changing the case of files in text is a bad idea
| in any language: you'll often see experienced users starting sentences
| like this:
|
| su changes your credentials...
|
| even in English, where that's not allowed normally.
|
| OK, one more point. /USR/LOCAL/THUNDERBIRD is possibly a different
| directory again. Without the slash at the beginning, it's USR/...
| relative to your current directory, which is quite possibly /home/adam
| by default. So you'd get /home/adam/USR/LOCAL/THUNDERBIRD. With the
| slash, it's always relative to /, the "root" of the directory tree.
|
| Keeping these concepts clear should help you find your way around
| Fedora.
|
| Hope this helps,
|
| James.
|

Hi James,

Good point about the case sensitive and relative paths. When I replied,
I did not notice those little details. In UNIX/Linux case is sensitive.

William
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