From: dog_cow@macgui.com   
      
   David Schmidt wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Sure why not? Let's say you have a directory of annual reports from 1980 to   
   1989. They ought to all have the same file name "Annual Report" and   
   differing dates for each year.   
      
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   A lot of what he have today is self-inflicted damage from choice of   
   command-line user interface. The classic example being spaces in filenames   
   when using a CLI with argument switches. The user interface could have been   
   designed a lot differently.   
      
      
      
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