Hello Peter! On Monday, April 8, 2002 at 4:38:00 PM you wrote:
> But back to TB! and not being a file manager: for me it is some kind of > that. A file manager, handling very special files, most of them are textual > files w/o need to 'execute' but only 'view'. It uses it's own 'file system' > (the message database; and comparing different file systems you'll see this > ain't unusual to have an FS acting sometimes like a database), I can > structure the files in folders and subfolders; I can copy, move and delete > them; So there're many points of comparison between 'OS-file system' and > 'mail handling' :-) As you show with your extensive use of quotation marks - and I think I'm quite correctly interpreting them as *not* meant to be a rhetorical figure for ironic meaning - you know quite well that you are overly technical here. With this definition - technically quite correct, I know - no programme is anything else but a file manager. I venture to say that even the most basic (no pun intended) programming language (low-level machine linguistics) is under your definition a file manager, copying and restructuring the smallest possible files (data) into different memory allocations. We as users have a very different outlook on an application. Ask any woman - am I glad it was Yuki bringing this up - about how she perceives a computer. It will be very different from your PoV. It is there to handle certain everyday tasks, just in another medium. Instead of writing up a letter on paper, putting it in an envelope, stamping it and taking it to a postbox, you use TB! to write to someone. Maybe a bit too pragmatic for most men - always asking for "more power, huff, huff" - but nevertheless right: Computers and especially applications* are tools. *note that I used "application" deliberately instead of "programme". -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.60d on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C When people have problems using a design, it's not because they are stupid. It's because the design is too difficult. (Jakob Nielsen) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
