From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!sdcattb!sdcarl!rusty Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: small gripe Article-I.D.: sdcarl.2405 Posted: Thu Sep 2 23:03:03 1982 Received: Sun Sep 5 03:01:17 1982 If anyone is taking a vote I think it is a bad idea for readnews to default to saving in one's home directory instead of ".". If you want it to default to your home directory make a shell script that looks similar to my "emp" shell script that I use for Empire: #! /bin/sh cd ${HOME}/emp eval exec empire "${*}" The "emp" directory in my home directory is protected so people can't look at my empire stuff. Generally programs that like to think for you cause more trouble than ones that don't. It is usually rather difficult to make a program that is "too smart" do what you want to do (as opposed to what it thinks you want/should do). As is demonstrated by the above shell script it is trivially simple to make a "dumb" program do something "smart" for you.