The funny part is, find the most rabid Unix-head you know, and ask why it's A Good Thing that filenames are case-sensitive. In my reasonably extensive experience at playing this game (including 5 years at Linuxcare, with lots of victims), several things were always true:
1) They would assert vehemently that it was A Good Thing 2) They could not articulate why 3) When asked if they would ever create two files, "foo" and "FOO" (or any two combinations of upper/lower), they would agree that would be stupid So it fits the definition of "tradition": The same stupid old way we've always done it! I suspect that a Linux filesystem that was case-insensitive would not break anything, and might lead to sanity. Now, spaces in filenames is another matter, and harder to fix. My time at Linuxcare cured me of ever creating such deliberately, at least! .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
