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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
- UUCP: {harvard,linus}!axiom!drilex!dricej
- BIX: cjackson
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 22
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