[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[lojban] Re: open and save
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
> >
> > > <vreji> 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