I'd suspect not on a global basis. On a program by program basis you may be able to set some environment variable that points to the dotfile directory. You'll have to explore the man pages for each program you want to move the dotfiles for. Good Luck. Jack On Monday 26 March 2001 19:29, you wrote: > I appreciate all the responses to my previous query. However, no one > has answered my original question: is it possible to redirect calls for > dotfiles in my home directory to another directory? I understand that > most of you are fine with millions of dotfiles filling up your home > directory. That's cool. But I would really appreciate the ability to > keep all those files in another directory, so that when I use a > program, I don't have to scroll through miles of hidden directories. > First one that comes to mind is mtv: when I go to open a file, there > are all those hidden directories. In other words, this is not just a > matter of what options get tacked to the end of ls! Not every program > hides them like the Gnome and KDE open file dialog. > So, to recap: is there something that will redirect calls? For > instance, say program foo wants to open up ~/.bar. The call is > intercepted and the call changed to ~/dotfiles/.bar. Sort of like > symbolic links without the actual link. Is this possible? Can some > program run in the background and handle this? That's all I want to > know. > Thanks again, > > :Peter > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list