From: schmidtd@my-deja.com   
      
   On 8/11/23 8:56 AM, D Finnigan wrote:   
   > fadden wrote:   
   >> The CP/M filesystem continues to delight and terrify me.   
   >>   
   >   
   > If computer file systems had been designed by persons with secretarial   
   > experience, perhaps they'd be less brain-damaged.   
   >   
   > Even now it's an arbitrary limitation against more than one file having the   
   > same file name in a directory, even when there are plenty of practical use   
   > cases for having multiple files with the same name in a directory with   
   > differing modification or creation dates.   
      
   Heh.  What would happen is secretaries would have (root) directories   
   full of files that all have the same name but differ /only/ by the date.   
      
   Or... my favorite.  Do you know what HFS allows?  TRAILING WHITESPACE.   
   Do you know what's practically impossible to see?  TRAILING WHITESPACE.   
   Allowing arbitrary crap like spaces, backslashes, whitespace, or   
   whatever else the secretary barfed on the keyboard is great only if   
   there is a deterministic way to know a file by another (saner,   
   automatable, deterministic) handle.  Lots of dedicated word processing   
   systems did exactly that... you have a file with a slug and a date, and   
   you can barf all you want into the metadata section.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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