Re: lynx-dev persistent cookies

[David Woolley]

> 
> The way persistent cookies work in dev24 is to create a file named
> 'cookies' in whatever directory you are in when you start lynx, not
> specifically the home directory.

That causes a namespace pollution problem.  Conventionally Unix would:

- use . as the first character of the filename;
- follow that by something like lynx;
- if there were a large number of such files, use a directory called 
  something like .lynx
- almost always do this in the home directory.