From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 16 16:13:40 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1443B108D4 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:13:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1mail2513.mymailbank.co.uk (UK1MAIL2513-PERMANET.IE.mymailbank.co.uk [217.69.47.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4480E1666 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (UnknownHost [88.151.27.41]) by uk1mail2513-d.mymailbank.co.uk with SMTP; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:08:15 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1arSlX-000OHb-RQ; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:08:11 +0000 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:08:10 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon Subject: Re: Ports upgrade script Message-Id: <20160416170810.2432e5da717042bb18346ee1@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20160416170837.81dddb26.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <2daca22c-7719-0776-fbe8-3c37021298bf@cloudzeeland.nl> <20160416122425.b603d040.freebsd@edvax.de> <20160416170837.81dddb26.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:13:40 -0000 On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:08:37 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > Terminology sidenote: The thing is called a directory, not "folder"; > "folder" is the name of the graphical representation of a directory. :-) Introduced in order that people would not be frightened away from a new user friendly operating system by scary technical terms and instead have something familiar. This worked fine until you tried to explain to the hide bound office worker that it was called a folder because you keep files in it and they looked over to the wall of files containing folders containing documents and were puzzled. Then they found that things moved the wrong way when you scrolled them and your day just got worse. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith