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- From: seismo!enea!chalmers.UUCP!jacob (Jacob Hallen)
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 86 23:35:50 -0100
- Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
-
- >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).
- >
-
- There is a serious flaw in the CR case! You lose orthogonality in
- the interpretation of commands since creations, moves, copies and
- some other file operations will interpret arguments literally while
- other commands will have their arguments interpreted in the flexible way.
- A move by the way is a good example since one argument will be treated
- in one way and the other in the other way.
-
- Jacob Hallen
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 49
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