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That’s not related to Microsoft the company. That’s a result of the archivist systems that I had to mess with to get this stuff restored from tapes and CDs. I didn’t feel like changing it too much. So blame me.

Thanks for your effort. Having a piece of my childhood made open source makes me so happy.

Consider yourself blamed Scott! jk

My comment definitely came across as rude and I apologize. Thanks for your work and for taking the time to provide a thoughtful answer :) I'd probably also have left it just as you did.

:)

I prefer it this way! It's better to share the "rawest" backups and fix them up after they've been dumped into version control so that a history of changes is available.

Being near 30 years old a lot of the naming looks hideous because it was developed with 8.3 filenames. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...

The migration away from having numbers in identifiers is a subtle but extremely important aspect of modern code quality I feel.

Having worked on code thats at least 20 years older than me, by the far the hardest parts to work out are the func1, func2, func3.