On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002, at 21:34 US/Pacific, Mosh Teitelbaum wrote:
> I imagine the powers that be in Redmond figured that allowing
> multiple files that were all named the "same thing" (despite case
> differences) would be too confusing for the intended every day users
> of the
> OS.
Remember that DR-DOS predates MS-DOS (and Windows) and was 8.3 filename
format (and case insensitive). MS-DOS was 'compatible' with that and
every single Windows version inherited that. An interesting comparison
is Mac OS X - Mac OS has also historically been case insensitive, as is
Mac OS X, but OS X is Unix Inside(tm) so there's a conflict of
personalities here... resolved in favor of Mac OS: the UNIX under the
hood is case INsensitive!
> I think though, like with Windows, the intended audience
> for the OS were people who would want near complete control over their
> environment and would likely be very comfortable differentiating
> between
> files that were spelled the same but cased differently.
Yes, and when you can easily map filenames to lowercase it's not such a
big deal:
for f in *[A-Z]*
do
mv $f `echo $f | tr A-Z a-z`
done
:)
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