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- >From bu-cs!bzs@harvard.UUCP Wed Nov 19 07:19:28 1986
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 86 21:35:03 EST
- From: bu-cs!bu-cs.BU.EDU!bzs@harvard.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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- The problem with a file system where you cannot have ReadMe and
- README is that you are throwing away possibilities. This also
- means that I cannot have tmp01234A, tmp01234B, ... , tmp01234a, ...
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- I fear that although many people have applications that are small and
- have small requirements they should not place restrictions on those
- with large requirements, use your imagination, consider MasterCard's
- data base for a moment or some of the multi-library catalog systems
- people are building, they may need (and have machines that have no
- trouble with) many thousands of files who's names may serve as primary
- keys (why not, it's one way to guarantee write-through on update...)
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- Next they'll be telling us we should only allow 16-bit ints because
- any number larger than 16-bits is hard to type in and error prone
- anyhow.
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- I still suggest the use of 'stty lcase' if that's what you want
- (alias run 'stty -lcase; \!* ; stty lcase' :-)
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- -Barry Shein, Boston University
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 58
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