On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:32 +0200, Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote: > mkdir: make a directory, create a new directory (a new "folder", in > Winparlance). It's not Winparlance. Apple (for example) used the word folder way before MS/Windows did, and Ubuntu ALSO calls it a folder. (Right click on the desktop and note we call it 'new folder'.) :P Cheers, Chanchao