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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <15392@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 20:32:13 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.025037.10765@colorado.edu> <Bx5MG7.JGF@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BxB8CL.Ew7@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >>Sorry, my Unix editor mangled your message. The case where case
- >>sensitivity is useful are SO RARE, and even where it is used, it
- >>usually shouldn't be.
- >
- >Oh, in our gopher server we use uppercase/lowercase/space as
- >part of filenames. Looks better. Why shouldn't I use it.
- >"Meeting Summary" is clearer than meetsum.txt, right ?
-
- Yes, and, as far as I know, OS/2's HPFS and NT's NTFS will allow you to
- call the file "Meeting Summary" if you want - *even though filename
- lookup is case-insensitive*.
-
- Just because a file system's filename lookups are case-insensitive
- doesn't mean that it stores file names in one case only.
-