Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:16:44 05/22/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 22:08:45, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. use [Th]his and you will find either. That works in vi, in the shells, anywhere in fact (regular expressions). If you want to find all filenames that look like that, "grep" and "egrep" understand that [] notation and will match filenames or patterns just fine... For a string search in vi, /[Tt]his/ will work just fine... Or :set ignorecase /this/ will also work fine in vi. > >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. Not in mine. I want WCCCxxxx to mean something significant, since WCCC is obviously an abbreviation for something. wcccxxxx should (to me) be a different file. Otherwise, _why_ would I name one WCCCxxxx and the other wcccxxxx and expect them to be the same? Why not just type them the same and it works. IE if you don't like case-sensitive filenames, simply make all your filenames lowercase and the problem is instantly solved, but leaving the rest of us the option of using case sensitivity to do whatever we want... > > > > Christophe
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