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*People who are used to work with bad tools don’t have spaces in their paths.

• tenebrisalietum 6y ago
  "C:\Documents and Settings" still hurts after all these years.
  • linuxftw 6y ago
    "C:\Program Files(x86)". Who ok'd that?
    • GrinningFool 6y ago
      I haven't looked in a while, but last I checked you could also still get to it via C:\PROGRA~1? (This was years ago, that might have been 'fixed'?)
      • joombaga 6y ago
        These are called 8.3 filenames. They're a filesystem feature. They're still created by default in Windows 10 on NTFS, but can be disabled or stripped using `fsutil`.
    • einarin 6y ago
      Speculation, but I suspect that Microsoft explicitly put both user data and programs in paths with long filenames and spaces to help force software to support those things. That always seemed like a good thing to me, it's ridiculous that we still have software that breaks on paths with spaces.
    • oblio 6y ago
      It's a design decision and a good one, at that. Forcing 1 million developers to handle spaces properly while they spend 1 billion hours developing their software is preferable to 1 billion regular users having to remember to not use space, a perfectly good separator, in their 1 billion billions hours of usage of said software.
  • jedieaston 6y ago
    It still hurts today, because Microsoft puts a space between your first and last name in your profile if you are using a local account but not for a domain account, which causes all kinds of weird issues if you ever have to use cmd.exe...
• jdxcode 6y ago
  cough make cough