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: <42@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 89 02:54:26 GMT References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA Lines: 28 In article bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: ->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. But if they left the case alone then you probably would be very upset that typing "newcli" or "endcli" would not work when the files where residing on an NFS server. >-Miles -- -+= SAM =+- "the best things in life are free" ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov