From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Case sensitive filenames 24 Jan 1998 12:58:43 -0800 Message-ID: <19980123151814.15137.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980120135538 DOT 4361 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Earnie Boyd Cc: nathan AT alexandria DOT lcs DOT mit DOT edu, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 20-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Nathan Glasser : > > > >When I use ls, as in "ls *.txt", I won't see the upper case or > >mixed case examples, because the program is case sensitive. This is a > >real pain, > > It is only a pain to the non-UNIX person. This is a product to help > port UNIX programs from UNIX to WIN32. UNIX is case sensitive and the > filesystem commands have been left as case sensitive even though the > supporting file system is case insensitive. But the filesystem commands haven't all been left as case sensitive! The current system is inconsistent, because *some* of the file system commands (e.g. cat foo.txt) are case insensitive, while others (e.g. cat *.txt) are case sensitive. > Again, this is not a pain for the UNIX programmer. Are you arguing that the way things are currently done is the best way that they could possibly be done? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".