Posted by Sla#s on 12/06/06 13:05

jan kowalski wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:31:11 -0000, Sla#s wrote:
>> More to the point - why on earth would anyone want to remove that
>> directory? Remember when new programs installed to root ?
>> You would end up with a root directory a mile long!
>
> Are you crazy?
> Almost nobody would desire, on purpose, a flat directory, let alone a
> flat root directory. Why do you even suggest such an abomination?
>

I didn't!
I said "...why on earth would anyone want to remove that
directory?"
I think it is useful! I use to do something similar back in Win 3.1

> A proper directory tree is O-R-G-A-N-I-Z-E-D!
> Many educated users prefer to organize by F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N!
> A proper directory tree (especially if huge) is almost certainly not
> F-L-A-T!

Really!
So you would not put Adobe Photo shop and Acrobat under \Adobe you would
seperate them?
Or you would seperate all the Microsoft office programs into a "function"
based tree?

Sorry but I just don't see what you are getting at!
But then I guess I'm not "educated" :-)

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Slatts

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