>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 > > > > E-mail Disclaimer > http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm > -- Randal Jarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSJ Consulting, Inc Hernando, FL (352) 419-0112 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
