Forward Slash

[Barry Karas]

11:25 AM 8/24/2007

The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages' addresses
begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.)

Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions. For
example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names.

Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make the
forward slash acceptable?

Thank you,

Barry Karas

 

[John John]

11:25 AM 8/24/2007

The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages' addresses
begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.)

Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions. For
example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names.

Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make the
forward slash acceptable?

Thank you,

No, it's an invalid filename character.

John

 

[Vanguard]

11:25 AM 8/24/2007

The forward slash (/) is quite popular. For example web pages'
addresses begin with "http://". (My quotation marks.)

Yet the forward slash is not acceptable for many computer functions.
For example the slash cannot be used for Windows Explorer names.

Is there a way to make the slash acceptable? If so, how can I make
the forward slash acceptable?

Microsoft didn't invent the Internet and as such is unable to screw
over those conventions. Microsoft also did not write the RFC (Request
for Change) standards for the Internet. When Microsoft designed
MS-DOS (er, bought Seattle DOS), they choose to be somewhat UNIX-like
but UNIX already existed and they needed to *sell* something else to
IBM. Microsoft also embraced the space character in filenames (which
has and continues to cause problems). Spaces are valid filename
characters in UNIX, too, but most Nixies tend not to use them and
instead use first-character capitalization of the words in a filename
or use underscores.