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From: grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: what are you doing with OS/2???
Message-ID: <951@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:46:50 GMT
References: <5154@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1989Oct19.143604.21001@rpi.edu> <1650@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
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In article <1650@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>, brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian A. Onn) writes:
> 	dkb@cs.brown.edu (Dilip Barman) writes:
> >Why is it that so many feel case sensitivity is a boon?  In learning UNIX
> >recently, I find it to be kind of a pain in fact - I like the DOS and OS/2
> >way of ignoring case. 
> 
> I guess it depends on which OS you started with.  I started with Unix, got
> to like it's case sensitivity, then moved to DOS and OS/2 as well.

I, like most of you, (hackers) enjoy Unix style case sensitive names.  We
tend to remember filenames and the subtleties of case.  I propose that a
vast number of PC users are not concerned with the elegance of mixed case
file naming.  I believe it could case problems for the non-adventurous
user who *knows* that there should be a file called junedata where in fact
it is in JUNEDATA.

I wonder if Mac users have any problem with this..?

Side note:  I would like to know the pros and cons for
   application developers under OS/2.  I like the idea of 
   compiling in background.  How much effect do the foreground
   and background processes have on each other ?  Are there 
   enough OS/2 application programs yet to tell ?


Kelly Grant   grantk@nosc.mil
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