On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: > what you are driving at. Maybe I'm just being thick, but why should a > client have to worry about the difference between foo and foo/?
It doesn't; foo does not match foo/% but foo/ does, so foo/ has to be used. > Do > mainstream clients (other than Pine) actually understand and care about > the difference? Yes. > Why should a client have to create foo/ as a placeholder before creating > foo/bar? Why not just create foo/bar in the first place? You're asking the wrong question. What if foo/bar is created, and then deleted. The Cyrus attitude is that there is no placeholder. The UNIX filesystem attitude is that there is. It just so happens that normally we do create the placeholders first, as part of forming a new view. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
