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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 13:38:03 GMT
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- In a previous article, sean@curry1.austin.ibm.com () says:
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- >In article <1992Jul23.005121.7666@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu
- >(Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Has anyone been able to figure out what the nowhere directory is for?
- >|>
- >|> Is there anyway to get rid of it?
- >|>
- >
- >Don't get rid of it (if you even can). NOWHERE is used by the OS as sort
- >of a temporary place to put things that it wants to hide from you. One
- >example is a 'Find Results' folder is usually built in there. You can
- >use this directory in your own REXX programs, and otherwise if you wish.
- >
- >Generally it is empty, so it shouldn't take up any real disk space. So
- >why worry about it in the first place?
-
- It disturbs my sense of order. I don't like leaving a lot of garbage in
- the root directory. I wish there was some way to get the nowhere directory
- and the spool directory out of the root and hang them off of the os2
- directory, but hiding the directories is almost good enough.
-
- I also dislike the *.ini files in my root that klondike & neko leave
- there. Whose computer is it anyway, mine or IBM's?
-
- I would have been happier if OS/2 was more orderly and kept itself
- in one directory tree. The way things are right now seems rather
- arbitrary.
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