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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.
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