Yes it would, but then the need for it is dim. This was my biggest concern, to be backward compatible with legacy apps. And it is possible. "C:\Program Files\

Yes it would, but then the need for it is dim. This was my biggest concern, to be backward compatible with legacy apps. And it is possible. "C:\Program Files\X\Y\Z" - "C"+"Program Files"+"X"+"Y"+"Z" "/usr/local/files/" - "usr"+"local"+"files" The only thing is that "usr" owns the file and so do "local" and "files" but the app doesn't care about that. Legacy apps do not access the files directly but through the filesystem. If the filesystem knows how to convert these conventional paths into sets, there is no problem.