[HN Gopher] "It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from...
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       "It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974"
        
       Author : mmastrac
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-06-07 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | unnouinceput wrote:
       | Ahh, the fun of opening a diskeditor in DOS, renaming some folder
       | I wanted to hide to AUX then no teacher could access it and see
       | my hidden treasures. Furthermore they couldn't even backup
       | students folder nor delete my folder, and it was DOS running over
       | Novell Netware. My oh my, the talk I had to hear from University
       | rector himself and the jaws they dropped when I rename it back to
       | some other name so they can finally have access to it. 1996, good
       | times.
        
       | rx_tx wrote:
       | Also not a fan of the twitter format, thankfully there are
       | unrolling websites (not affiliated with the tool)
       | https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058676834940776450.html
       | 
       | A fun dive into windows history and backwards compatibility.
        
         | lucb1e wrote:
         | And the TL;DR is that OP found com/aux/nul again.
        
       | mikestew wrote:
       | You know that famed backward-compatibility that some folks praise
       | Microsoft for? Yeah, well, this is the dark side of that. I'm
       | curious how much stuff would actually break if one were just
       | allowed to create files called COM1. Sure, _someone_ is out there
       | bit-banging stuff to a serial port with the _copy_ command, but
       | must we all suffer so that those three people don 't have to
       | rewrite?
        
         | _Microft wrote:
         | "Suffer" might be a bit of a strong word, don't you think?
        
       | sildur wrote:
       | Hah, I remember causing BSOD everywhere on IRC with that bug and
       | CTCP SOUND when I was a kid.
        
       | ldoughty wrote:
       | Not a huge fan of the blog-post-by-twitter-thread pattern.. read
       | the first 6 posts, the. Need to click to read more, then find out
       | it's 50+? tweets long?
       | 
       | Might be interesting, but feels like the wrong format.
        
         | jkingsman wrote:
         | https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128
        
           | mikestew wrote:
           | Someone should consider taking the hint, then.
        
             | gxqoz wrote:
             | It's interesting that the author mentions ADHD as a reason
             | to not post full blog posts.
             | 
             | I don't have ADHD but I certainly find a Twitter thread
             | much more distracting than a blog post to read. I need to
             | untrain my mind that the entire message isn't done by the
             | end of the tweet. And ignore all the other crap that
             | Twitter is trying to get me to click on in the trending
             | topics. I have to be extremely interested in a Twitter
             | thread to read it. It's just a horrible format.
        
       | skissane wrote:
       | Maybe Microsoft could give apps a way to opt out of this legacy
       | behaviour through the exe manifest, like they already do for long
       | paths: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
       | us/windows/win32/fileio/maximu...
       | 
       | For system apps like cmd.exe or explorer.exe, a registry key
       | would be a better solution. That way the end user or sys admin
       | can turn it on or off, whereas the exe manifest is fixed at build
       | time.
        
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