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Now Windows is embracing Linux with WSL and of course URLs use forward slashes. It would be so great if they switched to forward slashes.
by ape4 7y ago
Now Windows is embracing Linux with WSL and of course URLs use forward slashes. It would be so great if they switched to forward slashes.
- optymizer 7y agoafaik Windows has supported forward slashes for a very long time (I want to say at least since WIN 2K). Discussion here: https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/23123-when-did-windows-start-accepting-forward-slash-path-separator https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/23123-when-did-window...
- kragen 7y agoSince MS-DOS 2.0, when MS-DOS added a hierarchical filesystem.
- maxxxxx 7y agoYou can use forward slash quite a bit but there are a lot of exceptions.
- terandle 7y agoThe newline mess is a bigger problem imo
- oaiey 7y agoYeah. Unix should finally fix it :). CarriageReturn + LineFeed. That is correct :) Inventing new ways after the typewriter. Tss. These young people :)