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I used VMS for a while (I never became a power user), and it always felt really weird to me. But I'm not sure if it actually IS weird, or if it just seemed that

I used VMS for a while (I never became a power user), and it always felt really weird to me. But I'm not sure if it actually IS weird, or if it just seemed that way because I was already so familiar with Unix. On the one hand, directory separation characters are kind of arbitrary. But my brain insists that "/" is more natural than . (or ":" on MacOS).

bbatha 11y ago
Well VMS also had this nonsense for fully qualified paths, NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver everything except filename.type is optional based on the users current DEFAULT (pwd in unix parlance). And required extensions and used the "." separator making it overloaded and confusing to read at a glance. Edit: forgot a few parts of the qualified path.