News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?. Parent comment

Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by Sharlin on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:39PM (#20006196)
17-character file name, what madness is that? At best you could do BUDG0912.XSL or BU091282.XSL or something.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by ncmncm on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:37PM (#20006775)
We're talking about MacOS now.

It was really common back then to put dates in file names, and names could be 32 characters long. Furthermore, you didn't need an extension because every file had a separate 4-byte (binary, but usually ASCII anyway) type.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by Sharlin on Saturday May 25, 2019 @08:11AM (#20008546)
Who's talking about MacOS? The GP comment was top-level.
[ Parent | on HN ]