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> That’s what sticking to a policy of total backwards compatibility for several decades gets you! Kind of? Surely unix file path conventions are of a similar a
by usefulcat 4y ago
> That’s what sticking to a policy of total backwards compatibility for several decades gets you!
Kind of? Surely unix file path conventions are of a similar age (if not older), yet somehow they seem to exhibit much less weirdness..
- userbinator 4y agoThat's because the Unix convention is far simpler: everything except / and \0 (the null byte) is allowed in filenames, which are also case-sensitive (exact byte match).