um ... what's with the "." after the directory perms?

[Kevin Kofler]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> As an old-school Unix hand I'm a firm believer on 'man' as the reference
> point for documentation, but I think I'm swimming against the tide. For
> example KDE has virtually no man docs (and precious few other docs).
> This is bad and it's going to get worse.

Actually KDE has recently added several manpages, probably contributed by
the Debian folks. (In Debian, manpages are mandatory even for GUI apps.)

        Kevin Kofler