On Tuesday 09 November 2004 20:34, Chris Gow wrote: > 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 Hello all I find this conversation a bit odd. Files generally should have an extension so that they can be associated with some application and or give some indication of what's in them so personally I wouldn't use a file simpley called temp but I would call a directory temp as it does give some idea of what's in it. Regards John ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.