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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)'
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () lagoaminas ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-08-21 8:56:54
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 01:05, Stian Søiland wrote:
> I don't understand this, 'directory' is more ambigious than a 'folder' -
> a directory only lists items, it doesn't contain them. A folder  eh..
> ..folds around stuff. =)

In the filesystem level, a directory is just a list of files. it doesn't 
contain them. It is a collection of "pointers" (not in the programming sense) 
for files, so that you can map a filename to a physical location on the hd.

-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@coltec.ufmg.br

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