User:Krik~enwiki/File dialog
In computing, a File dialog is a dialog box that allows users to choose a file from the file system. File dialogs differ from file managers as they are not intended for file management (although some offer simple operations such as Folder creation), rather they are intended for the opening and saving of files.
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Before file dialogs, most programs requested files as a command line argument or as an exact file path.