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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Trashing case (Re: high-speed file transfer)
Message-ID: <46@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:47:11 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <45@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <3328@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <3328@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
->In article <45@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
->> In article <3317@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
->> ->Why not just have the NFS server emulate the normal Amiga case-handling?
->
->> How?  Try "newcli", "NEWCLI", "Newcli", "nEwcli", etc., until it gets it
->> right?
->
->Hell no. Just Examine(), then do a bunch of ExNexts until you get one to
->match. How the Examine and ExNext's work over the net is pretty much
->irrelevent.
->
->You DO provide this functionality, don't you? I mean you can get a directory
->of the nfs-mounted file system from the Amiga, no?

You can certainly get a directory using "dir", or "ls", or other
utilities.  I have not tried to do Examine and ExNext within a
program, but I would expect it would also work.  However, the problem
is that since a Sun, for example, has case sensitive file names, I
could have the files "newcli" and "NEWCLI" stored on my server.  When
I do the Examine, how do I know which is the correct one?  Note that
this could never happen on the Amiga, because regardless of case,
since if I had the file "newcli", and then stored "NEWCLI", the file
would get overwritten.


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