I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

[alicemcalicepants@ohai.social]

@maccruiskeen @piiabartos I work on webpages, so of course not

[bit@ohai.social]

@alicemcalicepants I'm "capitalization in filenames doesn't matter" years old.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@alicemcalicepants @rk And I’ve been using macs since 85, where it’s always been ‘ok’, but I’ve also always had to deal with DOS/Windows stuff so I always backed away.

[jeremymallin@autistics.life]

@alicemcalicepants
I'm "more than eight characters in a filename feels wrong" years old.

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants
Space in filenames are evil, too.

[piiabartos@mastodontti.fi]

@maccruiskeen @alicemcalicepants That is fine.

[tarix29@tech.lgbt]

@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@alicemcalicepants
All lower case, dashes if essential, that's it.

[chertridge@beige.party]

@alicemcalicepants Who remembers the #DOS prompt and only being able to run one letter at a time. Thought we were Up Town when we loaded a menu program that ran on start-up.

[binford2k@hachyderm.io]

@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos set `LongPathsEnabled` and you can get up to 32k in length. If your app and all frameworks it depends on support it, of course.

[dave3307@beige.party]

@alicemcalicepants that’s because it’s wrong

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@alicemcalicepants I’m “I knew I was dreaming, because the filenames had more than 8 characters” years old

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@frauxirah @catselbow @alicemcalicepants @piiabartos

[peterludemann@mathstodon.xyz]

@glueckstein @alicemcalicepants
I remember 6.3 (DEC RADIX 50)

[davefischer@hachyderm.io]

@alicemcalicepants

Anyone "just tell me which track I'm allocated" old?

[bodling@deacon.social]

@alicemcalicepants Do the kids out there even get what this is all about?

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@alicemcalicepants Wait, you can do that?

[pauamma@mstdn.social]

@alicemcalicepants "filenames have 2 components 8 characters or shorter each" years old here. (Extra credit question: is that older or younger?)

[alicemcalicepants@ohai.social]

@pauamma I definitely remember the eight-character limit, but I gladly accepted the change to being allowed longer names

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@bit @alicemcalicepants tbf I'm pretty sure most Windows installs still treat filename.txt and FILENAME.txt as the same file.