Re: Currant Bun

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From: Adam Hamilton
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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"Richard Caley" <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <86dqjl$f3q$2@quince.news.easynet.net>, Trevor Best (tb)
writes:
>
> tb> I'm not saying the drive letter aproach is better or worse, it's
different
> tb> and there are different ways of tackling any given problem, as for
what you
> tb> want users to see I don't agree, most users would barf at
/project/clim/work
> tb> just as much as they would f:\, g:\ or \\servername\share\dir
>
> I doubt that. /project/funky_new_product/design is simple and
> obvious. Q: is impenetrable and
\\server17\project\funky_new_product\design
>
> Is more than anyone sane wants to know.


    Fair enough.  Dare I ask what IS sane, simple and obvious?
A GUI?

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From: "Adam Hamilton" <A.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk.nospam>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/25
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