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Article #375Re: Case sensitive file names
From: Moderator, John Quarterman
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 19:32
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 19:32
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From: guy@sun.com (Guy Harris) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 86 00:54:24 PST > I would like to point out one small but very useful advantage with > case sensitive filenames. > In a directory containing many files its difficult to spot files > with names like makefile, readme and instructions. Given the names > Makefile, Readme and Instructions these files will appear first > in the listing where they are easy to find. This is an advantage of file systems that permit both upper-case and lower-case letters in file names. File systems with case-sensitive file names, and file systems with case-insensitive file names, can both permit two cases of letters in file names. [ Perhaps the third kind is called case-coercing? -mod ] Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 19
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Re: Case sensitive file names Message-ID: <6204@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 14:32:55 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6204 Posted: Mon Nov 3 14:32:55 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 05:35:54 EST Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee Lines: 18 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu