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Re: lynx-dev directories & folders
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Heather Stern |
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Re: lynx-dev directories & folders |
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Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:33:55 -0700 (PDT) |
Philip Webb Wrote:
> > anyway, `directory' seems the proper term, `folder' a popularisation.
"lang" (Greg Matheson) wrote:
> Folders are all the way through the pine and mutt documentation,
> no doubt because mail can be held in a file in mbox format, or in a
> directory in MH or Maildir format. Pine doesn't have MH or
> Maildir format, I think, but the documentation still uses the
> words 'folders' in 'collections.'
Collections of binary files aren't usually called folders. But that
mail likes to use "folders" to a special purpose, and that lynx is not
a mail agent (or a complete one, if you argue the ability to send mail
makes it one) suggests we should not use that term.
Honestly, I think Mac folks can figure out what we're talking about
when we say "directory". They're already looking at lynx, which isn't
very much in the Mac mold.
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- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, David Combs, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev directories & folders, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, lang, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders,
Heather Stern <=
- lynx-dev slash vs no-slash (was link runaround), Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, pg, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Chuck Martin, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, David Combs, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26