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Subject: Re: [9fans] everything is a directory
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We already have composite container / content objects, they are called 
directories

"list" gives you a list of their files

reading the files gives you the data available

new semantics like yours will need a new raft of tools, protocols and 
all the shite that goes with it



> is "everything is a directory"
> a big mess, a resource wasting fantasy, an idea whose time has come?
>
>   

just the first two