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writes: "Ken Springer" wrote | I read a long time ago, some computer filesystems had issues with spaces | in filenames. Ergo, the underscores. | | I don't know if that's true, but if you use underscores you avoid the | issue if it exists. | Yes, but why not dashes? The oldtimers still put underscores everywhere for no reason. Indeed. The underline ("under_score_" always makes me think of someone in a fit of anger, using their pen so viciously that it scores the paper) was, surely, never intended to be a character on its own; on a typewriter, it was intended to be used as an overprint character to, well, underline. (Or "underscore" if you must.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I've always wanted to be happy, so I decided to be - Neil Baldwin |
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On 13/12/2017 18:20, Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote Good point "Program Files". What were they thinking? It ends up requiring complex nested quotes in command lines. I've been saying that ever since W95 - the 'Files' is completely redundant anyway, what else is going to be in a computer directory, aardvarks? And even today almost two decades later it means that stuff like Perl still has to be installed elsewhere. I usually create a 'Programs' folder and put everything, that will let me, including Perl, in that instead of in 'Program Files'. |
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Java Jive on Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:21:23 +0000
typed in alt.windows7.general the following: On 13/12/2017 18:20, Mayayana wrote: "Paul" wrote Good point "Program Files". What were they thinking? It ends up requiring complex nested quotes in command lines. I've been saying that ever since W95 - the 'Files' is completely redundant anyway, what else is going to be in a computer directory, aardvarks? And even today almost two decades later it means that stuff like Perl still has to be installed elsewhere. I usually create a 'Programs' I prefer "progs" I know where it is, what it is, and three less keys to enter. To steel my uncles phrase "I'm a good speller but a bad typest". folder and put everything, that will let me, including Perl, in that instead of in 'Program Files'. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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