Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3280 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:06 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2007/12/07 03:16 (GMT-0500) Aaron Kulkis apparently typed:
> >
> > > Randal Jarrett wrote:
> > > > A lot of the files and some of the
> > > > directories have spaces in the name. 
> > >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > What idiot did that?
> > The M$ world has taught virtually everyone that spaces in filenames are no
> > problem. Each M$ user has these "folders":
> >
> > My Documents
> > My Music
> > My Pictures

The perversity in Redmond knows no bounds ... :-(

> Not to mention the horror of insisting on using the "wrong" slash as
> folder separator.
>
> Hans
> ps. If I had a $ for every mail someone sent me to go and look at
> \\server\share name\file name

Yes, a hold-over of backwards compatibility with
that toy operating system, CP/M.

[And yes, CP/M WAS a toy.  It was written by one
guy in his basement in the mid-1970's to use on
his Altair (*?) Intel 8080 machine, which he
distributed freely to hobbyists.  Then it was given
commercial legitimacy first by Radio Shack (TRS-80),
and then MS (Gates bought a slightly extended
commercial version and re-branded it PC-DOS].


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