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Subject: Re: linux issues

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:31:56 05/22/02

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On May 23, 2002 at 01:16:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 22, 2002 at 22:08:45, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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...

He's not talking about saving a file with different case.  If a filesystem can
do that, great.  But when you're _searching_ for a file, you should be able to
search for "wccc..." and see a list with _both_ sets of files.  That is what
Christophe is saying, and it makes way more sense to do it this way.



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