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- From: guy@sun.com (Guy Harris)
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 86 00:54:24 PST
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- > 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 ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 19
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