Ports upgrade script

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sat Apr 16 16:13:40 UTC 2016


On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:08:37 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> Terminology sidenote: The thing is called a directory, not "folder";
> "folder" is the name of the graphical representation of a directory. :-)

	Introduced in order that people would not be frightened away from a
new user friendly operating system by scary technical terms and instead
have something familiar. This worked fine until you tried to explain to the
hide bound office worker that it was called a folder because you keep files
in it and they looked over to the wall of files containing folders
containing documents and were puzzled. Then they found that things moved
the wrong way when you scrolled them and your day just got worse.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>



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