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    SubjectRe: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense)
    On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:


    > Fortunately I don't mind trolls. I don't think I have _ever_ seen
    > a compound document represented as a directory. I know that TeX
    > users do it sometimes, but they aren't normal users anyway.
    > Ask a random MBA, art student, or secretary what "TeX" is.
    > Normal users don't write Makefiles for their documents.

    Your random MBA, art student or secretary will be using an
    application or GUI which hides the fact that the albod is
    a directory.

    What part of that can't you understand?



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