[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:36:33 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 12/31/2023 9:05 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:38:00 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/31/2023 4:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Along with those 8-bit-era single-letter drive names, for some
>>>> reason.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft: “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!”
>>>
>>> You can mount disks without using drive letters with NTFS.
>> 
>> As I recall from reading docs, that doesn’t work with network shares or
>> hot-pluggable storage. Or this thing called “storage spaces”.
> 
> You don't need it for a network share - those can just be accessed
> directly via UNC.

So how do you select from available UNC shares in an application’s file 
picker?

> (it is said that one can make a symlink to UNC if one want to)

Windows symlinks have their own share of problems.

>> And remember, it’s NTFS-specific.
> 
> It is specific to the file system used on practically all Windows disks.

That’s a pretty shortsighted attitude, when you realize that NTFS is 
starting to show its age.

>> Windows lacks the equivalent of a fully general VFS layer, for some
>> totally unfathomable reason.
> 
> I don't think many Windows users miss it.

That’s true of the Windows users/developers that are left. The ones that 
understand the need, know where to get it. That’s why Microsoft is trying 
desperately (with WSL2 and other things) to make Windows more like Linux.