MacFixIt reader Richard Spensley describes a problem with Adobe Acrobat Distiller that shows why you should never use the forward slash "/" in filenames under Mac OS X. "I have just been trying to ...

Before computers became ubiquitous, the forward slash was simply a "slash." Since the days of DOS, which introduced the horrid backslash, many people refer to a regular slash as a forward slash to ...

OS X restricts the use of forward slash characters in file names; however, there may be rare instances where forward slashes can find their way into file names and result in OS X not being able to ...

One year ago, Forward/Slash Distillery & Blending House had barely been open a month but co-founders Tim Bradstreet and Michael Buffa, blenders of American whiskey, wanted to acknowledge this ...

Chrome: If you you're used to the ability to hit the forward slash key to to transport your cursor to the search box in webapps, then you might be annoyed when it doesn't work elsewhere. SlashSearch ...

The forward slash isn't just a key on your keyboard, but a transporter into the search box in Gmail, Google Calendar, Twitter, and many webapps all over the internet. How do you know if it works? Just ...

Raul Prieto writes in with an asymmetrical issue: All of a sudden when I am trying to save a modified file with a different name in Excel in the same folder than the original, I get the attached reply ...