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- From: ekl@fics.uucp
- Subject: Re: Recursive folders?
- Organization: Kvam data as
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:32:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.173206.2211@fics.uucp>
- References: <1992Jul17.192838.4613@math.ufl.edu> <1992Jul20.180746.19762@cs.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul20.180746.19762@cs.umn.edu> joiner@cs.umn.edu (Jay Joiner) writes:
- >In <1992Jul17.192838.4613@math.ufl.edu> sorrow@maple.circa.ufl.edu writes:
- >
- >>The WinNT SDK Reference does not mention if the Windows GUI will support
- >>folders in folders....someone tell me that if it has multi-threading
- >>capabilities, it can have folders within folders!
- >
- >Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what multi-threading has
- >to do with folders. The former is a CPU scheduling feature, and the
- >latter is a file system feature. I assume by folders you mean directories.
- >FAT, HPFS, and NTFS (presumably) all allow nested, tree-structured
- >directories, so what's the big deal?
- >
- >Jay Joiner
- >Univ of MN
-
- The "folders in folders" feature mentioned is probably the ability to
- *show* the filesystem hierarchically, like on the Mac or under os/2 2.0.
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- I do not believe this is scheduled for the first release of NT. Rather,
- I understand (guess may be the right word...) that this is part of
- what Cairo is all about.
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- Eirik Lygre
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- ekl@fics.uucp
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