Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:40:02 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. |
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Alan Cox wrote: > You change fundamental things like the behaviour of "more *" when people want > to read the files in a directory known the directories will just give > "is a directory" messages. Now they will give files from directories > below.
This only happens for directories with default files. And since these are conceptually "files with structure/metadata", having "more *" show the flat version is surely the Right Behaviour(tm).
Ordinary directories will not be affected.
-- Jamie
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