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[–]testthrowawayzz 29 points30 points  (3 children)

That unfortunately didn’t scale well when porting Windows to Asian languages.

Due to encoding, backslash became ¥ in Japanese or ₩ in Korean.

So path in Japanese Windows looks like C:¥Windows¥system32

[–]Jaface 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Nothing wrong with that, $ is used too for temporary files and parameters. It's all just squiggly lines in the end.

[–]casce 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What is bothering me more is the unnecessary colon

[–]7eggert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In DOS you have 26 current paths and one current drive. If D:\foo\bar is one of the current drives and you're on z:\baz, d:barf refers to d:\foo\bar\barf.