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lynx-dev directories & folders
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Philip Webb |
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lynx-dev directories & folders |
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Mon, 26 Apr 1999 01:12:56 -0400 (EDT) |
990425 Chuck Martin wrote:
> 990425 David Combs wrote:
>> What vocab should we be using in lynx doc? "Folder", or "directory"?
> even before telephones existed, directories did.
this is drifting off-topic, but DC's basic thought is re Lynx.
OED gives (with first known use in each sense):
1. Something that serves to direct; a guide;
esp. a book of rules or directions.
1543 J. Harrison: Man of Synne: title-p.,
An alphabetycall dyrectorye or Table also in the ende therof.
3a. A book containing one or more alphabetical lists of the inhabitants
of any locality, with their addresses and occupations;
also a similar compilation of the members of a particular profession,
trade or association, as a Clerical or Medical Directory etc.
1732 J. Brown: The Directory, or List of Principal Traders in London.
3b. = telephone directory
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Sept. 4/6
Daily reports of all new and changed names for the Directory
are forwarded to this department.
OED does not know `directory' w/r/t computers or `subdirectory' in any sense.
h. A folding case or cover for loose papers.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed 329
West went to a filing cabinet, pulled out a large folder marked Reformatory.
anyway, `directory' seems the proper term, `folder' a popularisation.
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- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, pg, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Greg Marr, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Greg Marr, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, David Combs, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev directories & folders,
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- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, lang, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, Heather Stern, 1999/04/26
- lynx-dev slash vs no-slash (was link runaround), Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, pg, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Chuck Martin, 1999/04/26