> CONTROVERSY! z/OS UNIX: is it an enhancement or a tool of the Devil? Both. The Devil is in the detail, and some of the details are diabolical.
I'm one of those who spell Unix as Eunix, with malice aforethought, and who grumbles "When the only tool you have is a pipe, everything looks like a filter!", and I grew up on upper case names, but IMHO the case sensitivity is one of the things they got right. And yes, I have created two files whose names differed only in case, when there was a sound reason for so doing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 4:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: CONTROVERSY! z/OS UNIX: is it an enhancement or a tool of the Devil? 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
