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- From: Josef Moellers <mollers.pad@sni.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 12:37:36 +0100
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn, Germany
- Lines: 38
- Sender: josef@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de
- Message-ID: <1ddle0INNfn5@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de>
- References: <1992Nov3.003038.12400@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <RICH.92Nov4093932@rich.kastle.com>
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- In <RICH.92Nov4093932@rich.kastle.com> rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov3.003038.12400@ultb.isc.rit.edu> axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.X. Ivasyuk) writes:
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- >> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) wrote:
- >> axi0349@ultb.rit.edu (Anatoly Ivasyuk) wrote:
- >> > > 1) Unix is case sensitive
- >> [stuff deleted]
- >> >Fine, then it should be like OS/2, which is case perserving but not
- >> >case sensitive. Therefore the file can be named "myFiLe" but I can
- >> >access it with del myfile.
- >>
- >> Hmmm... Interesting proposal. What if you have two files: "myFiLe" and
- >> "myfile". Which of these will "del myfile" delete?
-
- >As far as OS/2 (and AmigaDOS, BTW) goes, only one file matching the
- >pattern (unix parlance) [Mm][Yy][Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee] can exist in a
- >directory.
-
- Geez, I can't count how often I saved a version of a file by typing
- mv Driver.o Driver.O
- mv source.c source.C
-
- My 2ct:
- UNIX doesn't have these "user friendlyness" of DOS, because it isn't DOS
- that's user friendly, it's the applications that were written for it.
- One OS is no more "user friendly" than the other.
-
- DOS runs on el cheapo hardware (couple-o hundred $s will buy You an AT),
- UNIX (at least in the past) did require a somewhat bigger hardware.
- So, in the past, just about everyone who could program, wrote something
- for DOS.
-
- If these people would change to UNIX, the UNIX surely would win.
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