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

[randamumaki@mstdn.social]

@alicemcalicepants I'm 'filenames are 8.3 alphanumerical characters' years old.

[frauxirah@chaos.social]

@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @piiabartos I come fresh from a horrible migration project with that exact issue. And then people complain the files wouldn't sychronise anymore. #SendHelp

[dianebruce@bsd.network]

@alicemcalicepants That reminds me of the time BNR up here connected their unix machine to their macs and ended up with '/' in the actual filenames.

[grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social]

@alicemcalicepants filenames? If you load your whole system from punch cards or that new-fangled paper tape you don't need no steenking filenames

[fighen@mastodon.bida.im]

@alicemcalicepants @oblomov It is Still wrong

[grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social]

@DianeBruce @alicemcalicepants More than 26 years ago? BTW if you really want to mess with people on Unix like systems put newlines in the filenames.

[brokar@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants I'm 'why are files identified by their suffixes and not by their content' years old.

[technicaladept@techhub.social]

@alicemcalicepants no point in using those fancy pants FAT16 filenames if your batch files are just going to need to guess how they'll be presented to DOS. Bad enough that it's moved all my files to C:\docume~1\

[doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz]

@RandamuMaki @alicemcalicepants
I think we have the basis of an age verification system we can all get behind, here.

#fileSystems #ageVarification #socialMedia

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@alicemcalicepants I’m ‘wtf are these spaces’ yrs old.

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@alicemcalicepants I’m also, jokes aside, old enough to miss how vms automatically kept old versions of files.

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos isn't there a registry key to remove that limit?

Just 256 for the whole path sounds very restrictive

[azteclady@kind.social]

@alicemcalicepants yes.

oh lord, yes.

[cauzation@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants Why do I feel like I should underscore this?..

[alxndr@tech.lgbt]

@alicemcalicepants Still wary of spaces, TBH.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@alicemcalicepants unless it's underscore. Also no spaces; you camel that text

[ajn142@infosec.exchange]

@ariarhythmic @catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos yes, all modern versions of Windows can support long paths, but the application interacting with the file still has to support it too, and that support has to be compiled in.

Last I looked, even Excel didn’t support this, but that’s been a few years.

[xenophon@mastodon.online]

@alicemcalicepants I'm still a little nervous using slashes in filenames with Linux.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@alicemcalicepants The first time I used a Windows computer was when I had a temp job in a carpet company’s corporate office. Before then, I’d only ever used Apples and DOS. I was new to the 8.3 file name structure. I used those 3 letters to show the name of the person I created the document for & thought I was so clever.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@alicemcalicepants When Windows asked me what program should open .ABC files, I told it the program I used to create the document. I feel sorry for whoever had to use that computer after I left.