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Specifying file paths (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Also the internet belongs on the left.

And really, Linux/macos could be reduced to "Unix" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And BSD. It's really just Windows vs. literally everything. Or is there anything else that uses backslashes?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

CP/M

Which in this context is named hilariously.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Typical windows behavior

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The number of times I had to ask "how can I tell where the file 'physically'" (I know) "lives" on the network when I took up work at a Windows shop, it was just baffling. And Win people couldn't understand what I was asking.

There's a location for this effing thing. I want to know where it is, really! How do I get that info?!

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't really watch Star Wars. I'm a more of a Trekkie gal.

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See, you can separate files both ways as long as it's logical

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I don't get it

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The lightsaber direction is like / \

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[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both works fine in Windows tho?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Used to not

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually, from what I can tell in my brief 15-minute internet search, every version of Windows since NT has accepted both because DOS 2.0 supported both. The exception to this was Command Prompt. But, these days, it supports both. Not sure when they made that change in Command Prompt, but I think it's been that way since at least Windows 7.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sadly, I had the great displeasure of writing code for Windows (and DOS) well before then.

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