In article <3fcf9617@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

> Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> > (note: it is usually "hidden" due to the first dot in its name)
> 
>   It's debatable whether a file can be called "hidden" simply because
> ls doesn't list it by default.
>   I'm not aware of any other program which would not "see" it as any
> other file. Even "echo *" lists all files.

It *is* a convention that files beginning with "." are considered 
invisible. "echo *" doesn't list all the files, it echos a string of all 
files matching "*" to standard output...dot files match that expression, 
so they are included.

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