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From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Long names in System V (really mixed case)
Message-ID: <3416@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 12:26:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 12:26:14 1987
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Reply-To: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield)
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Summary: Use a completer shell

In article <8704050609.AA00698@4-035-9> rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert L. Krawitz) writes:
>The other disadvantage of mixed-case names is that they are very hard
>to type.

So use a shell with a command/filename completer, like TWENEX's escape
key.  Just about any `XInCredibly-Ugly$GobbleDy_Gook.c' becomes easy
to handle, and you preserve the usefulness of the MixedCase name when
scanning a sorted listing of your directory.  SysV simply requires you
to keep your XUgliNess briefer, but it can still be at least as ugly
and nearly as informative.
-- 
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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