Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!oodis01!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 89 23:46:57 GMT References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>, <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > ... > 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". Actions like this (trashing case) should be left to the user. There's very little more irritating than a program that purports to know better than the user what he wants. -Miles