Slashes in file names

[Carolyn Marenger]

C? Bleeding edge. I had a ][e.

I was 9 when my dad brough home an Apple II+. The plus -- remember this?
-- meant something like 8k RAM instead of the standard 2k (or 4k?). That's
KB! Not MB!! Wow. Pops worked at GWU's Engineering school and my brother
and I would bang on the latest PC's they had -- Apples, that is. (That was
when "PC" was more generic for "Personal Computer" and didn't
specifically mean WintTel/IBM clone.) They had a 5MB external hard drive
for their Apple II's that was about the size of a modern minit-towser PC.
5MB! And that was whoppin' huge in 1980. (or 81, maybe). We played some
cool games on the early early Macs and I remmeber how cool I though the
3.5inch floppies were.

I remember getting my first computer, an apple ][+ with two floppy drives
and a graphic printer. That was after heading over to a friends for a
couple years to use his TRS-80 Model 1, then model 2. I didn't have a
hard drive, I used 5 1/4' floppy disks. I cut a notch in the back side,
so that I could doube their capacity by turning them over.

Then there were the Amigas we used to run a lottery system in the Czech
Republic. They needed lots of RAM, so we bought RAM expansion boards and
fully populated them. 128MB on the card and 64MB on the motherboard if I
remember correctly, and the RAM only cost about $30,000 for each of the
three systems we needed to configure.

That's my two cents worth of blah...

Carolyn

 

[Andy Dingley]

I was 9 when my dad brough home an Apple II+.

You were lucky...

We had to punch our own punched tape. Then we had to go and shovel
coal into the Babbage Engine. And we thought we were lucky if we
didn't get caught by the Jacquards while we were doing it.

 

[joy beeson]

Actually, on the DOS/Windows filesystem, "/" and "\" are interchangeable,
though "\" is convention. And some particular DOS/Windows applications
will insist on a "\".

In DOS -- at least in the versions I've used -- "\"
separates the path, and "/" introduces a switch. For
example, "ed C:\letters\auntmary.txt/s" would mean "open
file 'auntmary' in directory 'letters' on the C disk, using
ed.exe, and make a back-up copy without prompting."

 

[Toby Inkster]

In DOS -- at least in the versions I've used -- "\"
separates the path, and "/" introduces a switch.

DOS allows "/" as a path separator -- right back from DOS 2.0 until the
latest version of DOS (which came with Windows ME).

However, some DOS *programs* refuse to accept "/" as a separator. As it
happens COMMAND.COM (the DOS command interpreter) is one of them.

References:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/demon.ip.support.pc/msg/e7fd1c235b38e77c?dmode=source
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++/msg/efdee28a07fdc309?dmode=source
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/2c447d91d74968be?dmode=source

 

[Blinky the Shark]

It was somewhere outside Barstow when JDS <[email protected]>
wrote:

You were lucky...

We had to punch our own punched tape. Then we had to go and shovel
coal into the Babbage Engine. And we thought we were lucky if we
didn't get caught by the Jacquards while we were doing it.

You had a Babbage Engine? We were still trying to work the bugs out of
the abacus.

 

[tshad]

You had a Babbage Engine? We were still trying to work the bugs out of
the abacus.

You had an abacus

 

[Blinky the Shark]

You had an abacus

Not quite. It was still in alpha -- we were drawing the prototype in the
dirt, with pointy sticks.

 

[Toby Inkster]

dirt, with pointy sticks.

Look at you, all lah-dee-dah with your dirt and pointy sticks.

I had to use quicksand (volatile storage device) and blunt sticks.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Blinky the Shark wrote:

Look at you, all lah-dee-dah with your dirt and pointy sticks.

I had to use quicksand (volatile storage device) and blunt sticks.

I don't think we ever considered how lucky we were to have even
pseudononvolatile[1] media; in retrospect, we should have been, and I
stand humbled.

[1]The dirt was vastly superior to quicksand, but the flash floods were
still a bitch.

 

[JDS]

pseudononvolatile[1] media; in retrospect, we should have been, and I

Now y'alls are just getting silly

 

[Blinky the Shark]

pseudononvolatile[1] media; in retrospect, we should have been, and I

Now y'alls are just getting silly

<looks around> Who, us'ns?

 

[David Dorward]

Also, this does not seem to work for:

<!-- #include file="/development/includes/development/slidemenus.inc" -->

Probably because file directives take file paths, not URLs.
http://www.bignosebird.com/sdocs/include.shtml