From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 07 18:39:17 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:39:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18W67d-0001XL-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:39:13 -0800 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:39:13 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: open and save Message-ID: <20030108023913.GT3954@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030107180540.GX3954@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3743 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:11:41AM -0000, And Rosta wrote: > Robin: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:57:21AM -0600, Steven Belknap wrote: > > And dacru isn't a file in that sense anyways, it's a drawer. A > > *physical* drawer. A *sliding* *compartment*, for crying out loud > > > > > is not an apt lojban word for file. A file *contains* > > > records > > > > Umm, BS. Unless you're defining record as an ASCII character or > > something, I assure you, the vast majority of my files do not, in > > fact, contain records. They are records (i.e. permanent-ish > > storage) of data > > I agree in one sense, but from the user's point of view a file does > feel like a container. That's an argument for vasru, *not* dacru as such. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u jmaji le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi