On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:58:52 -0600 Steven Belknap <sbelknap@uic.edu> 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. > > On my Mac there is a *sliding drawer* which I click on to see my files Yes, and that is analogous to what is called either "directory" (which I believe is the term on the Mac, too) or "folder". These are things which contain files. The analogy works. > of email messages. Not all physical file holders are sliding > compartments. My reading of the definition is that the brackets around > > "sliding compartment" denote a typical instance of a <dacru>, but do > not necessarily restrict the meaning of the word to physical drawers > with sliding compartments. I think it refers to a "file" as in a filing cabinet. From what I understand, this use of "file" is regional, and not to be mistaken for the usage which made its way into computer parlance. > dacru dac drawer x1 is a drawer/file in structure x2, a [sliding > compartment] container for contents x3 -- Theodore Reed (rizen/bancus) -==- http://www.surreality.us/ ~OpenPGP Signed/Encrypted Mail Preferred; Finger me for my public key!~ "Be careful when you wrestle with monsters, lest you thereby become one. For, if you stare long into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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