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Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround


From: David Combs
Subject: Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:06:17 -0700

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:29:18PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> <snip>
> As much of a UNIX geek as I am, I'm running into this problem lately when
> copying file heirarchies around..  Tab-completion, which I'm a relatively new
> user of, sometimes puts / on the end..  to annoying results.. because instead
> of copying the folder and it's contents, it's then copying the contents
> of the folder to the destination folder..
> 

What vocab should we be using in lynx doc?  "Folder", or "directory"?

To me it is now and probably always be "directory" (a "folder" is something
in a file-cabinet's drawers).

(But then again, I guess to some people, a directory is where you
find phone numbers...).

Just musing....


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