MS-DOS, HFS, and other file separators

Eric J Korpela korpela at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 11:55:32 CST 2005


> CP/M-80 2.xx up had USER numbers.  Anyone ever find a real use for
> it? Besides losing files?
 
Once you added a hard drive they were essential.  I tended to
segregate by language, (i.e. BASIC would be user 1, FORTRAN would be
user 2, C would be user 3, Turbo Pascal would be user 4)  Without them
you'd never be able to find a file.

Eric


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