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Re:Learning to program is getting harder by incompatible on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:02PM (#16398687)
I thought 8.3 filenames were obsolete, even on Windows? Do your juniors even have any idea what you are talking about?
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Re:Learning to program is getting harder by Arkight on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:43PM (#16399071)
It is quite obsolete, but we can still use them in modern windows for legacy program support.

As for whether such legacy program exist anymore it is a mystery.

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Re:Learning to program is getting harder by ZenoArrow on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:06AM (#16399994)
I still use .htm as an extension name for HTML files, even though all modern OS' can support .html. I wonder how common that is.
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