On Sep 30, 4:28*pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2010-09-30, J. Clarke > wrote:
>
> > The thing is, now "directory" has another meaning, and we can't blame
> > Microsoft for it, ITU came up with the standard.
>
> ITU has come up with "its" standard. *More petty tyrants trying to
> make a niche and impose their bureaucratic standards. *I don't even
> know who they are, let alone recognize them.
>
> nb

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I've seen reference to the "desktop" folder...now "that" doesn't make
sense at all. How can the desktop be a "folder"?...although in the
grand scheme of Windows things it IS reality a folder.

I would be quite happy to go back to the "directory" system.

When trying to help out newbies with their new or used computers they
seem to grasp the concept of directories and sub-directories better
than the dumb "folder" and "sub-folder" nomenclature. They do know
about phone directories and don't refer to them as "phone folders".

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