Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 09:26:13 05/23/02
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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.
>
>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.
In all gui-frontends (kfind, XFGlob...) you just have to mark/unmark a
checkbox to toggle between case-sensitive/case-insensitive searches.
Is that all to make you happy ? Linux is very flexible. You can always do
things the way YOU want.
>
> Christophe
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