Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci
From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Message-ID: <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 16:23:01 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
Lines: 39

In article <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) writes:
->In article <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
->>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 :-)

I guess you missed the point entirely.  I know that the Amiga does not
care about case sensitivity, but a Sun does.  So if a Sun is your
NFS file server and you ask for "newcli" while the file on the Sun
is called NewCLI, the Sun will tell the Amiga "don't got it".  That
is the reason why Ameristar downcases all the file names when you copy
them to your server.  Note that the case is not modified if you copy
the files to your server using FTP.  However, then to invoke a new CLI
you would be forced to type "NewCLI".

->>					-+= SAM =+-
->>				ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov
->-- 
->Tony Sumrall acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs



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