Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by Karuma on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:07AM
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Programmers should never put DLLs in those folders... Or even ever touch them.
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by mastax on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:20AM
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Except for \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, of course.
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by jaywalk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:41AM
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I occasionally try to search for the reasoning behind the location of the hosts file in Windows, and I always come up blank.
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by blincoln on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:07AM
(#29189478)
Maybe it's from back before Windows had a built-in TCP/IP stack? If it were a third-party/optional driver, having files related to it in a path under system32\drivers would make sense.
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by mjevans on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:17PM
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Back around Win 95 when they added networking it was based off of (IIRC) BSD's TCP stack and related tools. They were an optional 'third party' driver of sorts, but shipped by the first party. I'm not positive about WinNT or Win3.11 (for workgroups?)
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by mixmastamyk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:33PM
(#29192108)
I remember adding "trumpet winsock" to Win 3.x back in the day. Says '94 for that, and summer of '93 for NT 3.1 debut:
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
by HideousKojima on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:26PM
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They originally copied BSD's network stack, IIRC