R.S. wrote: > BTW: My argument against Unix behavior: I cannot distinguish MyFiLE and > MYfiLe during phone call. Even spelling is simpler for M-y-f-I-L-e than for > "Upper M - Upper Y...".
Indeed. I'd put it more strongly: Case sensitivity for *IX filesystems offers NO benefit that anyone has ever been able to articulate to me. If you ask a *IX person, they act like it's just "obviously" A Good Thing, but can never express why. And if you ask them if they've ever created /something/abc and /something/Abc or any of the other possible values, they say "No". I think Windows got this one right. And a decade of asking for a counter-argument has failed to produce anything useful. (Oddly, the one quasi-counter-argument is CMS, where you have to work at it to create/use a file with lowercase in the fileid-but that's a different kettle of hamsters, since it's more a byproduct of an historical mistake than a deliberate feature, and not the same at all as *IX.) -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
