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Microsoft warns against disabling Windows legacy feature that can unlock huge performance
www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-warns-against-disabling-windows-legacy-feature-that-can-unlock-huge-performance/
Replying to @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
Windows can still create an additional short 8.3 alias for a long file name.
O.m.g.
They should have removed this ancient handbrake long ago. Now I learn that it not just still exists, but is also still engaged by default.
Replying to @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)
Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.
Other DOS reserved names include PRN, LPT1, LPT2…
copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.
Replying to @hayvan@piefed.world
copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.
The Linux equivalent of that is cat file.txt > /dev/lp0. It still works if you have a parallel port printer that accepts plain text.