On 2020-02-09 7:39 p.m., Аl Воgnеr wrote: > BTW, can you explain the difference between folder and directory, for a > non-native English speaker I cannot see a difference.
I've always taken it as a the Real Thing(tm) is a 'directory' but Microsoft, since they had to have a different nomenclature for just about everything and alter standards in subtle ways and claim they were right and everyone else is wrong, called them 'folders' and created icons to match. Perhaps the best counterpoint is SUN's icon for a directory. OK so it looks like your smartphones 'contacts' icon. Back then, the popular concept was a 'phone directory'. Of which "Yellow pages", another bright concept from SUN, was an example. Of course it was UNIX that was The Real Thing(tm) and predated Microsoft, perhaps in the form of Multics, by more than a decade. The original MS-DOS, you recall, was a flat file system. So was the file system for the original Macintosh. But then if we turn the clock back a bit further, in the older IBM mainframe world a 'directory' was (and still is) the header of a Data Set that listed the entries in the that data set. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idad400/pdsd.htm However, in our world: Linux and other UNIX derivations: DIRECTORY Windows and other Microsoft derivations: FOLDER -- "Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future." -- Peter F. Drucker. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
