Guest Barry Karas Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 11:25 AM 8/24/2007 The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages' addresses begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.) Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions. For example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names. Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make the forward slash acceptable? Thank you, Barry Karas
Guest John John Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Forward Slash Barry Karas wrote: > 11:25 AM 8/24/2007 > > The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages' addresses > begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.) > > Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions. For > example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names. > > Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make the > forward slash acceptable? > > Thank you, No, it's an invalid filename character. John
Guest Vanguard Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Forward Slash "Barry Karas" <barrykaras1234@comcast.net> wrote in message news:bfOdnSqwN-PMYFPbnZ2dnUVZ_rKtnZ2d@comcast.com... > 11:25 AM 8/24/2007 > > The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages' > addresses begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.) > > Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions. > For example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names. > > Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make > the forward slash acceptable? Microsoft didn't invent the Internet and as such is unable to screw over those conventions. Microsoft also did not write the RFC (Request for Change) standards for the Internet. When Microsoft designed MS-DOS (er, bought Seattle DOS), they choose to be somewhat UNIX-like but UNIX already existed and they needed to *sell* something else to IBM. Microsoft also embraced the space character in filenames (which has and continues to cause problems). Spaces are valid filename characters in UNIX, too, but most Nixies tend not to use them and instead use first-character capitalization of the words in a filename or use underscores.
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