On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:20:20PM EST, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > BTW they are directories, not "folders". > > > Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Does it appear so artificial? > > > Sorry. > > Maybe the distinction is not a matter of whatever mother tongue forced > upong us, but rather a difference in terminology between *nixspeak and > MacWindowsSpeak? > > In any case, in the context of your query, which is an operation that > involves components of a file system, the technical term directory > appears to be more appropriate than the vague icon-inspired term folder.
And a directory is? Isn't it the D in an LDAP server? What's a file to do with a directory? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
