On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:24:28AM -0000, dbneeley wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> > 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.
He's being sloppy with language, however he is correct. Although the
terms are used interchangeably, the proper term in Unix and Unix like
systems is directory.
On the other hand, most people use folder, and everyone knows what they
mean. :)
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