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Article #276Re: Case sensitive file names
From: Guest Moderator, John B. Chamber...
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1986 16:20
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1986 16:20
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From: axiom!drilex!dricej@harvard.UUCP
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 86 10:24:22 edt
Subject: Re: Case sensitive file names
I fully support Mark Horton's points about making case-insensitivity
optional in POSIX. The fact remains that case-sensitivity in file names
is a Unix parochialism, and not a very good one, at that. I've found that
case-sensitivity is not hard to teach, just hard to get along with. I am
in a situation that is not unusual these days--I use several operating
systems each day (Unix, MS-DOS, VM/CMS, Burroughs MCP). To remember the
peculiarities of each one is difficult--and case-sensitivity in file names
(and switches) is such a peculiarity. The uppercase-lowercase system just
wasn't designed to convey that much information (in English)! Look at
e. e. cummings!
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Craig Jackson
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