On 2003-08-21 10:56:54, Henrique Pinto wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I know this, but not my grandmother =) (the favourite 'user' at the
list as far as I could understand =) )

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