Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:12:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alan Cox writes:
> What is the kernel tree. I do believe its a compound document > in a directory tree.
The kernel tree is a collection of related documents. One could abuse a compound document system to store source code, but that would be a lousy idea. Source code doesn't have many of the normal document-like properties. For example:
There isn't a well-defined and obvious way to print the whole thing.
Nobody would think of just cut-and-pasting the whole kernel source into another project. Going the other way is also a silly concept.
One wouldn't embed a spreadsheet document into the kernel. One wouldn't embed a kernel source tree into a spreadsheet.
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