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From: martens@skiff.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using PIPE: device
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Date: 31 Jan 89 23:35:14 GMT
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In article <1151@hub.ucsb.edu> dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>In article <167@nrl-cmf.UUCP>, healy@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Liam Healy) writes...

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>I have found that the pipe names are case sensitive, and that the case 
>sensitivity extends to the "pipe:" part of the name as well.  As an

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>Actualy I consider this a bug in the pipe: device, I think pipes should 
>be case insensitive like filenames are, it would certainly reduce the
>number of hung systems caused by missmatched pipes.

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Absolutely, I agree with you that this is a bug (whether in
implementation or in specification I don't know).  Unfortunately, I
wouldn't expect it to be fixed in later releases because the people at
Commodore have to assume that somebody's made use of this as a
"feature." 

-- Jeff