Chapter 1. What Can You Find in a Directory?
In many ways, developing software applications has become orders of magnitude more demanding in the past 15 years, especially when the target environment is a desktop computer. In 1985, applications were generally small, had a single purpose, had a command-line interface, and typically did not interact with each other. In the PC environment, sneakernet was the dominant means of distributing programs and program output: you copied the data to a floppy and carried it over to another PC if the data was needed there.
Today millions of computers are connected to each other. Companies have internal networks that permanently connect company computers with each other and that periodically connect computers ...
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