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From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Message-ID: <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 19 Jan 89 02:58:11 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>In article <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> hummel@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>->
>->Since you took my words out of context to plug your product, I really have few
>->qualms about airing a complaint about your NFS software: It fails to preserve
>->the case of files.  Now, I know that there is some question here because UNIX
>->is case sensitive and AmigaDOS isn't.  But if the local filesystem PRESERVES
>->case then a remote one should too.  In any case, you did a fine job on your 
>->software, but NFS is not an answer to the original poster's question.
>
>If they retained case sensitivity of file names then you would be forced to
>type "NewCLI", "EndCLI", etc.  How many Amiga users invoke commands using
>the exact case of the file names which are saved in?  I rest my case.

Whoa up there!  The Amiga doesn't care about case when it's *processing*
files but:

   *  it allows the user to create filenames containing both upper and
      lower case
   *  it preserves the filename during copy and rename operations.

I create filenames so that I can have some idea of their contents.
SomethingAboutMyLatestProject is easier to read than
somethingaboutmylatestproject (I shy away from spaces so I don't have to
quote the filename).  Do you still think your case is rested :-)

>					-+= SAM =+-
>				ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov
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