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- From: mcvax!axis!philip@seismo.css.gov (Philip Peake)
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 86 09:41:00 -0100
- Organization: Axis Digital, 135 rue d'Aguesseau, Boulogne, 92100, FRANCE
-
- In article <6226@ut-sally.UUCP>:
- >From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
- >Date: Tue, 4 Nov 86 07:33:44 EST
- >
- >We seem to have three proposals:
- >
- >CS: Case sensitive file systems. This is what all major Unix variants
- > (V6, V7, SysIII, SysV, 2BSD, and 4BSD) now support.
- >
- >CC: Case coercive file systems (file names forced to all upper or all
- > lower case).
- >
- >CR: Case retaining but otherwise insensitive file systems (new names
- > are created according to the given case; matches are not case
- > sensitive).
- >
- >I sincerely hope that no one is seriously suggesting POSIX adopt
- >CC: no one seems to like such systems much.
-
- This one line invalidates completely the rest of this article.
- WHY do people trying to defend one of their pet ideas always claim
- than 'no one' wants the opposite?
-
- There is at least ONE person whod DOES want such filesystems - me!
- And I DO suggest that POSIX adopt such a system.
-
- Philip
-
- [ Nor are arguments consisting solely of "I want it" very useful. -mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 47
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