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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