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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD
- Message-ID: <15357@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:15:07 GMT
- References: <30067@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> <15330@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Nov5.083501.12507@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >You obviously misinterpreted the article you replied to;
-
- Wrong.
-
- >it's not about
- >who does the translation (tolower), but that it has to be done AT ALL.
-
- Umm, the paragraph to which I replied was, to put it bluntly, about who
- does the translation.
-
- >That's the real crux. For every directory lookup (or any dir.
- >operation, it seems), you have to go through a tolower-loop, etc. A
- >bloody nuisance, I call it.
-
- Life is harsh. For every directory lookup (or any directory operation,
- it seems), you have to go through a string comparison, too. Perhaps
- it's a nuisance to the writer of the directory lookup code to do case
- mapping, too, but *if* it's more pleasant for the user that way, I'd
- rather have the programmer put up with the nuisance than the user.
-
- It's a "bloody nuisance" to have erase/kill or other editing code in the
- tty driver, too, but it's a *real* bloody nuisance to have to do
- without it.
-
- Now, one can ask whether it *does*, in fact, make life more pleasant for
- users to have case-insensitive file names; I've not seen any data for
- either side (lots of individual statements, but nothing more interesting
- than that).
-