A contracted form which you decided is written to be ff. Though the symbol is short, it is very convenient, for you will seldom mistype.Ī directory name which comes out and is directly under what comes out avoids.Ī system name, a software name, a directory name that a system has, and the same confusing thing as others' name are also avoided.īelow, it is fooooooo about your user ID. My recommendation is the symbol which is two sequential lower-case alphabet, each of which is the initial character of your usrid.įor example, the symbol is ss if the User ID is sonobe. (Step 2) Determination of Your Home's Abbreviation symbolĭeterminate your abbreviation symbol to represent your home directory.įor the abbreviation, you had better to adopt your User ID or its abbreviation. When you are thinking of moving to NTFS format, I recommend you to investigate sufficiently the influence in advance. The functionality of 'symbolic link' is adopted for this method.Īlmost in case of UNIX and Linux, it is O.K.īut, in the case of Microsoft Windows, it is impossible for 95/98/Me systems.Įven if it is NT/2000/XP system, symbolic linking is impossible for FAT32 file system, while it is possible for NTFS file system, I am sure. (Step 1) Checking Your Computer's Operating System I will present these convenient methods to you. To solve the problem, I have developed two methods to avoid the tilde keying for HOME designation. (I do not know whether you can believe or not that I saw persons actually who could not find the tilde key when they were trying to input some URL.) However we have to depress the key, located at two keys righter than the zero key. We feel it very troublesome that pushing Shift key is needed simultaneously.Įspecially in case of the JIS keyboard in Japan, the tilde key is stamped together on the 0 (zero) key. Moreover, the positions of tilde have been designed differently, depending on the keyboard type. The tilde key is located at the far side on the keyboard, so the key is harder to depress. Where the percent sign '%' represents the prompting character(s) of UNIX shell.
While we are using UNIX (including Linux), we are always troubled by inputting of the tilde character ` ~', by which UNIX shells indicate user's home directory,
* This page is made by "machine translation" program from Japanese to English.
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