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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 12 Mar 2007 06:32:00 -0700, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
>> On Mar 11, 3:59 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
>> wrote:
>>> GUI
>> 
>> Really? But one of the difficult situations people are describing here
>> occurs when a file pattern expands into too many files to fit within
>> the limits of the command line. Can you reasonably expect that the
>> typical GUI environment will be able to comfortably handle such a
>> situation?
>
> Sure, because they were designed to prevent such situations to happen.

How does a GUI prevent the user to have 100000 files in a directory
("folder")? And what happens if the user opens such a directory?

Regards -- Markus