Basil Fernie wrote:

> Replying to your first half-reply, thanks for the insights into the
> official nomenclature, I'll just remark that to my mind, for continuity
> with a very long literary tradition, I believe a "volume" should be a
> single physical storage unit, like one HDU or what we usually call a
> 'book". This should be the datum concept from which other gradations of
> association or decomposition should mark off their positions. Using
> "file" as the datum concept has resulted in awkward mismatches.

Book or volume correlation makes sense, but it's too limiting. The
physical HD is the whole Brittanica set of 30 or however many volumes.
Volume C may be complete insofar as subjects starting with C, but it
stands poorly without the rest of the alphabet, less than a greater
whole.
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                                                Proverbs 13:24

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