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>From: Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>
>Cc: nathan AT alexandria DOT lcs DOT mit DOT edu, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Subject: Re: Case sensitive filenames
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>In-Reply-To: <19980120135538 DOT 4361 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com>; from Earnie Boyd
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>On 20-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Nathan Glasser <nathan AT alexandria DOT lcs DOT mit DOT edu>:
>> >
>> >When I use ls, as in "ls *.txt", I won't see the upper case or
>> >mixed case examples, because the program is case sensitive. This is
a
>> >real pain,
>>
>> It is only a pain to the non-UNIX person. This is a product to help
>> port UNIX programs from UNIX to WIN32. UNIX is case sensitive and
the
>> filesystem commands have been left as case sensitive even though the
>> supporting file system is case insensitive.
>
>But the filesystem commands haven't all been left as case sensitive!
>
>The current system is inconsistent, because *some* of the file system
>commands (e.g. cat foo.txt) are case insensitive, while others
>(e.g. cat *.txt) are case sensitive.
>
>> Again, this is not a pain for the UNIX programmer.
>
>Are you arguing that the way things are currently done is the best way
>that they could possibly be done?
One could never say that anything is "the best" for anyone except for
the things one has developed for oneself. What I argue is that things
are livable. Having to work on three different operating systems at one
time is a real challenge. Ever try using a UNIX environment, a VMS
environment and a MSDOS/WIN32 environment all on the same CRT/KEYBOARD.
For you gnu-win32 cat try, cat *.[tT][xX][tT]. This is exactly what you
would have to do on UNIX if you had mixed case file names.
>
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