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[Randal Jarrett <rsj@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From what I can remember, they used the back slashes to avoid
having problems with AT&T for copying Unix.  I guess that they
only worried about repercussions with items that were visible. 

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:25 +0000, 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
>
> 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
>
>
>
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Randal Jarrett  <rsj@xxxxxxxxx>
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