On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote:
> UNIX has done well without pervasive case munging. > You misspelled "despite" as "without" :-( I often wonder how many millions of man-hours and real dollars have been lost due to case-sensitivity in *IX. I've repeatedly asked *IX types about it, and they insist it's good, while (a) not being able to explain why and (b) agreeing that they would never deliberately create two files with the same name but different case. IMHO, Windows actually got this one right... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
