[lojban] Re: open and save

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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.



We say that the water is contained by a jar because we can easily
imagine water that's not contained by a jar. Can we have data "outside" of
a file? Does the mere recording of data instantiate a file if we ever hope
to find it again? (/dev/null is a distraction that will be ignored.)



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