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From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Guest Moderator, John B. Chambers)
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Subject: Re:  Case sensitive file names
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 12:20:30 EDT
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From: axiom!drilex!dricej@harvard.UUCP
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 86 10:24:22 edt
Subject: Re:  Case sensitive file names

I fully support Mark Horton's points about making case-insensitivity
optional in POSIX.  The fact remains that case-sensitivity in file names
is a Unix parochialism, and not a very good one, at that.  I've found that
case-sensitivity is not hard to teach, just hard to get along with.  I am
in a situation that is not unusual these days--I use several operating
systems each day (Unix, MS-DOS, VM/CMS, Burroughs MCP).  To remember the
peculiarities of each one is difficult--and case-sensitivity in file names
(and switches) is such a peculiarity.  The uppercase-lowercase system just
wasn't designed to convey that much information (in English)!  Look at
e. e. cummings!
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Craig Jackson
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