Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!b11!jim
From: jim@b11.INGR.COM (Jim Levie )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Message-ID: <359@b11.INGR.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 89 18:57:45 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: jim@b11.UUCP (Jim Levie )
Organization: Far from the halls of Amber
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In article <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) 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 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".
>

In my opinion this is a case where two wrongs do not make a right...  The
Amiga SHOULD be case sensitive at the DOS/EXEC level, if you don't want to
type "NewCLI" just rename it to "newcli". Workbench and/or the CLI could be
made to ignore or honor case also, or better yet let the user select how they
want this handled in "Preferences".

 Ameristar's downcasing of the file names when accessing an NFS partition
is only workable if the directories are only being used by Amigas.  Just
try using NFS to work on a directory containing stuff that is used both on
the Amiga and Unix, and that contains mixed case file names.  As long as
the Amiga only reads the files everything is fine, but if you edit any of
the files...  crunch, now all the Makefiles are broken.  Or, compress a
bunch of files on the Amiga to an NFS partition, then try to uncompress
them under Unix. I could go on and on citing problems that I see all the
time that are caused by this.





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