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Specifying file paths
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Also the internet belongs on the left.
And really, Linux/macos could be reduced to "Unix" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg
And BSD. It's really just Windows vs. literally everything. Or is there anything else that uses backslashes?
CP/M
Which in this context is named hilariously.
Typical windows behavior
This rings true in more ways than one.
Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.
I might be wrong, but I think you still can't use a ':' in a filename in macOS. If I recall correctly it will let you do it and show it in Finder, but actually replace it with a '-'.
I mean literally… \https://example.com**/**index.html