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.
Sean A Corfield wrote: > 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! Granted, MS inherited case-insensitivity from DR-DOS but, like Apple did with OS X, MS could have made it case-sensitive. But... [see my original comments] 8^) > > 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 > > :) Wait! That's one of those 30-odd commands I don't remember. 8^) (And what about all the code that had already been written referring to mixed-case filenames? sed & awk anyone? Bleh). 8^) -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
