You are right. The default behavior is not nice for unix systems. It should store the files with a leading dot on these systems for default. But the way of choice to start phex on a unix system would be to write a very small shell script that calls phex with an option that specifies the place of the config file. I'm using ~/etc/.phex.cfg as parameter. In this config file are parameters pointing to the other phex files in the same dir. By the way, what do You think of the concept of an etc dir in home. This would tidy up the home directory. Should phex use an ~/etc dir for default? Should phex create such a directory or just use it if available?
Alexander