Jeff,
Your response in general was excellent. However, I just thought I'd pull your chain a little...
You said, first:
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> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 00:26, kcdomapps <kcdomapps@.
> Sure... but first... Folders exist in Windows. Linux has Directories.
> Not that I'm trying to sound deliberately difficult, but nomenclature
> is important ;-)
A little later in the same post, you said:
> You were told that you needed to create a folder. Yes and no. For
> what it's worth, I always create a temporary folder to open tarballs
> in...just because there have been too many times when I've opened one
> that was just a bunch of files, only to have those files now littering
> my home directory, or /etc or some other location.
So, if I read you correctly, "Folders are for Windows" but then you "always create a temporary folder..."
Of course, "nomenclature is important"..
Sorry, but common practice--just as you use it--is that "folder" and "directory" are equivalent regardless of operating system.
That particular nomenclature is for a distinction that does not exist.
David
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