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Naming Torrents (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 7 months ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 22 points 7 months ago

it goes way back before ftp.. i believe its because the original operating systems filesystems/namespacing could not handle the space character at all. so all files lacked spaces in their names. but only for like the first 30 years

[-] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago

Yes, you're correct, it goes much further back than FTP, all the way down to UNIX I believe. The problem was commands and parameters (options) which use a white space to seperate between them. So, filenames and directories were't allowed to have white spaces in them.

[-] biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work 2 points 7 months ago

30 years ain't small

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