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   Jimmy Johnson to Rich   
   Re: How do *you* install Slackware   
   25 Mar 23 23:18:13   
   
   From: Jimmy@disposable.invalid   
      
   On 03/25/2023 09:21 PM, Rich wrote:   
      
   > "Directory" is the actual underlying filesystem name for the structure,   
   > and in the command line tools, "directory" is pretty much exclusively   
   > used as the name.  That's why the "permissions" character that shows in   
   > a long listing from ls (ls -l) is a "d" for directories, and why the   
   > "mkdir" (MaKeDIRectory), "rmdir" (ReMoveDIRectory), cd (Change   
   > Directory), and pwd (Print Working Directory) commands are named the   
   > way they are.   
      
   You have not proven my use of files and folders was incorrect. Nothing I   
   said was wrong and I don't need your lesson to run Slackware as a matter   
   of fact most of what I do with Slackware I do from a chroot and I've   
   been using cli for a long long time.   
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   Jimmy Johnson   
      
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