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To: re_nortex
Note the use of the term "folder". That's an end-user syntactic sugary term, abhorred by anyone who's actually aware of computing technology. The proper term was, is and will always be "directory". The system call primitive is, of course, "opendir(2)", specified by POSIX 1-2001. A manpage states:

Yes. That is one of my major peeves. You'd be surprised though, at how many windows "administrators" who never use the proper term. Well maybe not. Personally, it annoys the hel out of me.

 

35 posted on 06/18/2014 7:20:36 AM PDT by zeugma (It is time for us to start playing cowboys and muslims for real now.)
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To: zeugma
You'd be surprised though, at how many windows "administrators" who never use the proper term.

If the Windiots ever get to a command line, the command to get a listing is, of course, DIR. How they can reconcile the name of that command with the term, "folder" is beyond my comprehension. There is a fold command to wrap input lines to a specified length but it has nothing to do with so-called "folders". :)

44 posted on 06/18/2014 5:02:05 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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