Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple streamnonsense) | Date | 8 Jul 1999 10:26:16 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9907060957530.2179-100000@mothra.ilogic.com.au>, Damien Miller <dmiller@ilogic.com.au> wrote: >On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > >> Fortunately I don't mind trolls. I don't think I have _ever_ seen >> a compound document represented as a directory. I know that TeX >> users do it sometimes, but they aren't normal users anyway. >> Ask a random MBA, art student, or secretary what "TeX" is. >> Normal users don't write Makefiles for their documents. > >Your random MBA, art student or secretary will be using an >application or GUI which hides the fact that the albod is >a directory.
"When I'm trying to copy my wonderful document, cp says something about a directory and doesn't copy it."
"When I ftp my wonderful document, ftp says it's not a plain file and doesn't copy it."
"Chapter core in my wonderful document vanished over the weekend."
>What part of that can't you understand?
Unless you intend to macify the user interface and force users to wade through trackless swamps and climb the Himalayas[1] to do anything other than sitting at the console, a "we'll hide it in the GUI and the app" approach will fall off the edge of the universe pretty quickly.
____ david parsons \bi/ [1: Unless you actually live by the Himalayas; in \/ that case, you'll need to climb the Andes.]
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