Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[bob thestuff net]

Well, if a person is worried about only useing documents, do you think
those are the same people who are going to be useing the console? I dont
think so. useing nautilus or gmc would be what they would use. 


On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ian McKellar wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:49:42AM +0000, u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> > > > cp myfile.doc /mnt/zip and it's not going to work.
> > > 
> > > "cp -R myfile.doc /mnt/zip" will work.
> > 
> > Yes, but they're going to get confused if they believe it to be one file.
> 
> Yes, but users don't care about files they care about documents. If you
> educate them that "cp -R" copies whole documents and "cp" copies individual
> components of those documents they'll be happy.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Also having a directory
> > > > allows write access, name changing etc to the files.
> > > 
> > > So does a gnome-vfs efs module :-)
> > 
> > GNOME_VFS_ERROR_READONLYFS
> > 
> > :)
> 
> chmod a-w myfile.doc/*
> 
>:)
> 
> Ian 
> 
> PS: I think we've established the fact that we disagree on this one. There's
> not much point arguing anymore :-)
> 
> 
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