The user can open up a compound document in a text editor and 'mess' with
it. If you need to protect compound document directories from users, then
you can improve the shell, it achieves the same effect.
> (b) The normal user expects a `bunch of data' in a single file, not in a
> directory.
If the shell is written properly, this is how they'll see it.
> (c) The content of the `directory' isn't of interest to the user but to some
> applications.
It's of interest to some users, too.
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