Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:08:45 05/22/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 21:04:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On May 22, 2002 at 17:08:55, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Vincent your post is excellent.
>>
>>I have been able to find in your message most of the points that annoyed me the
>>most when I tested Linux.
>>
>>The most important points that are really a shame are:
>>
>>* Lack of standard automount in the kernel. I guess there are compatibility
>>reasons for not implementing automount for CDs and floppies in the kernel,
>>because there are no hardware reasons. Standard PCs have the necessary media
>>insertion/ejection sensors.
>
>
>This is present. On my redhat 7.2 machine, I simply insert a CD and I can
>then poke around on it without mounting a thing. Floppies are the same...
>
>>
>>* case sensitivity in retrieving files names. What a bullshit! What purpose does
>>it serve? Can't find any. How many problems does it generate? Many. But here
>>again I do not see how this problem can be solved, as it is burnt deep into the
>>system. Storing file names exactly as they were typed is OK, not retrieving a
>>file because of case sensitivity is a major mistake.
>
>You could certainly write a brain-dead shell that could map all unix
>filenames to lower-case, and map all console input to lower-case, so that
>there is no more sensitivity in filenames. However, there are perfectly
>good reasons for uppercase and lowercase filenames being different. You
>can control which files show up first (or last) in a listing by using the
>right case. You can use case to indicate other things such as a working
>directory vs a backup directory. Both have the same name, but the case
>could be different.
>
>Do you not use case-sensitivity in your C programming? I hope so to make it
>more _readable_. I certainly do.
I agree with you that being able to write the file names and variable names as I
want is great.
What is not is being unable to find "this" when it has been spelled "This"
initially.
Filenames are case sensitive in Windows only for storing. When searching for
filenames, the search is case insensitive. That's the best way to do it in my
opinion.
Christophe
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