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- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 86 0:30:45 EDT
- From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@prophet.bbn.com>
- Subject: Case Sensitive file names
-
- To my view, the case folders have to make a VERY strong case that
- case-sensitivity is a bad thing before we could justify BUILDING IN
- that somewhat arbitrary limitation onto the operating system. As has
- been mentioned, if the filesystem is left alone, then it is easy to
- envision that for certain uses, certain users *might* want to use (or
- to use utilities that use...) a variant or (or layer on) stdio that
- simply toupper's the filename string in the fopen call. The users
- that didn't need or want such a limitation should be free to do as
- they wish.
-
- Note that most of these other systems that are being presented as
- exemplars have pretty horrible filename conventions (most punctuation
- marks are not legal, certainly control chars aren't legal, the
- equivalent of '..' is *built in* to the kernel, the operation of '.'
- is *built in*. I've always thought that was a crock!
-
- >From what I've heard of the arguments so far, coupled with my biases,
- I'd vote to keep it case-sensitive (but then, of course, I don't have
- a vote so that hardly matters... :-).
-
- /Bernie
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 23
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