> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Personally I don't see "directory" as being more scary or technical > > than "folder". Apparently, Americans are scared of words with more than two syllables. debian-user@howorth.org.uk (12023-11-02): > While I belong to the 'directory is the correct term' school of > thought, I can see how the idea of a folder is a thing that contains > other things (and specifically files sometimes) appeals, whilst a > [telephone] directory is just a thick book. And that is precisely what filesystem directories are: they do not contain anything except a list of names and numbers. Folder is the metaphor, directory is the fact. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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