RE: tlug: Japanese

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne - 3Web writes:
 > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:
 > 
 > >  > Afterstep to twm without asking me if that was ('&"!'#&!! OK (it's not, and
 > >  > that little trick is the kind of thing I would expect from a Windows 95
 > >  > install)
 > > 
 > > OUCH! That's below the belt, alright. Which program is it that did
 > > that?
 > 
 > I'm not sure if the culprit was the new beta of TurboLinux or if something
 > odd happened when I restored my /home/jonathan files back, but .xsession
 > came out with nothing in it except bash, so it was defaulting to twm.
 > Chris Sekiya put me onto .xsession as a likely place to look, and putting
 > the path to Afterstep in there got me recovered.  I still don't know what
 > trashed .xsesssion, but when I install this new beta on my machine at home
 > tonight, I'll be watching to see if it does it there, too.  If it does,
 > then I'll know that beta did it.  If it doesn't, I'll go find a mirror so
 > I can get a good look at the culprit :-)
How did you make the backup. It may be possible that you did not copy
the dot file (i.e. .<filename>). This happens if you just make a copy, 
i.e. copy * backup/. You should use tar. If you did then something
else is wrong.

Marcus
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