Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-list yakk net au>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0000, u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> > 
> > Remember: Users don't care about files - they care about documents. So long as
> > they can treat their documents as distinct entities they'll be happy.
> 
> And directories are not distinct entities on a commandline. If we have told a
> user that their document is a single file in the filemanager (because the FM
> handles it as one), when they get to the commandline they're going to try to do
> cp myfile.doc /mnt/zip and it's not going to work.

"cp -R myfile.doc /mnt/zip" will work.

> Also having a directory
> allows write access, name changing etc to the files.

So does a gnome-vfs efs module :-)

Ian