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Old 05-08-16, 01:41 PM   #9
Rockin Robbins
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A folder is the analogous representation of a directory. Directories live on disks, folders live in graphical representations of what is on the disk. Windows is a shell, a fictitious representation of what is really happening at the hardware level.

As a matter of fact, before "gui" was coined all these graphical representations were called shells. Now, Windows and Mac people all think that the shell is reality. Windows even tried with their "library" concept to divorce the concept of folders being on certain disks. A library can be spread all over creation, including cloud storage. Yuk!

At least in the Linux world the terminal window is still the holy of holies that the DOS window and before that DOS itself was. Now the command window is a crippled relic about as useful as your appendix. In Linux the terminal is the place where wondrous stuff happens and where understanding comes from. And Linux is a place where that bastardized creation of Satan (that would be Bill Gates), the backslash, needs not exist!

It's so bad that on TV commercials we have news readers (used to be reporters but they evolved to the point where they forgot how to report) give net addresses as "HTTP, colon, forward slash forward slash..." THERE IS NO FORWARD SLASH!!! There is a slash and there is the cursed backslash. I feel much better now.
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