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SubjectRe: albods
rgooch@atnf.csiro.au (Richard Gooch)  wrote on 30.06.99 in <199906300527.PAA25681@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>:

> In the GUI, however, you can pretend the albod is atomic (although,
> again, it would be wise to provide an option to "break" the albod).

[...]

> The normal user will be using a GUI, and thus will see the albod as an
> atomic piece of data.

[...]

> The contents of the directory are not of interest to regular lusers
> who can only use the GUI. Power users will definately want to get in
> under the hood.

Well, even MacOS made the Finder present suitcase files and the system
file as a folder you could open and, for example, drag fonts in or out.

And now people want to *prevent* users from looking into directories? When
even MacOS did the exact opposite thing (showing real files as
directories)?

Just say *NO*!

MfG Kai

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