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: <44@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 15:50:31 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <359@b11.INGR.COM>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <359@b11.INGR.COM> jim@b11.UUCP (Jim Levie ) writes:
->In article <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".
->>
->
->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.

I agree with you entirely.  The point is that the Amiga SHOULD be case
sensitive at the DOS/EXEC level, but currently is not.  Until that
happens we are left to make do with the current situation.  Many times
I've had to log in the Unix machine to rename files so that some of my 
Makefiles would work.

My original point was in reply to a post which criticized Ameristar for
making the decision to downcase all file names.  I don't think that
Ameristar would have done that if at the DOS/EXEC level case sensitivity
would have been preserved.  Thus I feel that people are barking up the
wrong tree in criticizing Ameristar for this.

-> Jim Levie   REMTECH Inc  Huntsville, Al 
-> The opinions expressed above are just that.
-> Ph.    (205) 536-8581               email: uunet!ingr!b11!jim


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