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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)'
From:       Stian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8iland?= <stian () soiland ! no>
Date:       2003-08-26 4:36:52
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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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Stian Søiland               Work toward win-win situation. Win-lose
Trondheim, Norway           is where you win and the other lose.
http://www.soiland.no/      Lose-lose and lose-win are left as an
                            exercise to the reader.  [Limoncelli/Hogan]
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