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How to use Outlook with VFP?
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From
21/11/2023 02:53:54
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
 
To
21/11/2023 02:39:37
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01687287
Message ID:
01687300
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37
>>>„I still say directory, never folder“
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>>Any directory is a folder, while not any folder is a directory. Since the difference was never made clear enough, people are confused. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>This is more about the period before 1995, when M$ insisted on directory and didn't want to hear about folders, which they thought was reserved for the underworlds of Macs and Ataris. Well, there's a paragraph about that near the bottom of this article, to save myself the effort of copying it and pasting here.
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>There's a better confusion in hungarian, where they translated, officially, a directory as könyvtár, literally a book store/warehouse, i.e. library. Then they went on translating further, came to the item called „library“ and started pulling their hairs. Don't know how that ended.

In German this is replied with Was stört mich mein Geschwätz von Gestern - What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday? , even while Adenauer might used the word Geschwätz in his local dialect and chitchat might not come close. And it must be said, it's half sentence only, it ends with , if I know better today. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer

Also the idea of folder covers more then the 1991 directory. There is change, isn't it? A folder is simply anything you see in MS File Explorer, like Directory, Printer, My PC etc. A Directory is something out of this, VFP might address.
Words are given to man to enable him to conceal his true feelings.
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