On November 9, 2004 02:19 pm, Zé wrote: > im using kde-3.3.1. > In konqueror i tried to create a folder name /temp but appeared a window > dialog asking to change the name because there was a file named temp. I've tried that before. > > This is absurd because konqueror is treating folders and files as being the > same thing. Uhh..no its not kde, but the OS. Try doing a mkdir in a shell; you'll get the same error. I have a general idea why this isn't possible in Unix, but I won't explain it here as I don't know the exact technical reasons why and I don't want to go about spreading incorrect information. > > Of course that would be possible to have a file names temp and also a > folder named temp. Oh, just an FYI, Windows doesn't allow you to do this either. At least not Win2k with NTFS. -- chris ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.