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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Filenames -- converting
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Date: 14 Jun 89 18:08:20 GMT
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In article <895@sceard.UUCP> mrm@sceard.UUCP (0040-M.R.Murphy) writes:

| In all of the followups to this posting that I saw, I didn't notice
| anyone mention the possible advisability of checking that the
| translation to lowercase of the filename in question might produce
| a filename that already exists in the directory in question. 

  The xxu program I suggested includes this checking. If you say "oops"
1.8 sec after doing something you are far more polite than I... what I
usually say is not suitable for posting, and I often say it while the
finger is still pressing down the key, when the brain says "no, stop!",
and the finger muscles say "wait a mo, I'm pressing this RETURN key...
ok, now I'll pull away from it."

  I run shell functions for a few of the things which I most like to
type wrong, as well. Let the computer do the error checking.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me