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Did they intentionally use only folder names with spaces that are at least 9 characters long and with the space after the first 6, so that the 8.3 version conta
by moritzwarhier 2y ago
Did they intentionally use only folder names with spaces that are at least 9 characters long and with the space after the first 6, so that the 8.3 version contains no spaces?
Pretty clever if so :D
- volemo 2y agoWhat ‘bout “C:\My Documents” though?
- cobbaut 2y agoThat came later, end of 1996 with OSR2.
- repiret 2y agoA space in an otherwise 8.3 file name would still be treated as a long file name and get a ~1 shot name alias.
- moritzwarhier 2y agoThanks for the clarification! I was curious about a deep dive into this topic, and skimmed the MS doc pages after a Google search. They mentioned different Windows APIs and Long file names, but the only mention of the tilde compat layer I found was very superficial ("some file-systems" use the tilde as special character), so I abandoned my initial interest in getting up to speed on this during a 2min weeekend read.