Re: lynx-dev directories & folders

[Heather Stern]

Philip Webb Wrote:
> > anyway, `directory' seems the proper term, `folder' a popularisation.
 
"lang" (Greg Matheson) wrote:
> Folders are all the way through the pine and mutt documentation,
> no doubt because mail can be held in a file in mbox format, or in a
> directory in MH or Maildir format. Pine doesn't have MH or
> Maildir format, I think, but the documentation still uses the
> words 'folders' in 'collections.'

Collections of binary files aren't usually called folders.  But that 
mail likes to use "folders" to a special purpose, and that lynx is not
a mail agent (or a complete one, if you argue the ability to send mail
makes it one) suggests we should not use that term.

Honestly, I think Mac folks can figure out what we're talking about
when we say "directory".  They're already looking at lynx, which isn't
very much in the Mac mold.

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