RE: Re: Renaming files on win32

G'day Gili,

FWIW MSDOS (and variants) prior to VFAT are all case-insensitive and
do not preserve case.  All filenames get upper cased in all (pardon
the pun) cases.

There are numerous other examples too, primarily from the pre-1990s
world (CP/M, mainframe / minicomputer OSes etc.).

Cheers,
Peter
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gili [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:08pm
> To: Graham Leggett; Scott Palmer
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Users
> Subject: Re: Renaming files on win32
> 
> 
> 	There is not a single system out there that I know of that is
> case-insensitive but not case-preserving. No need to spread 
> FUD. I also
> don't feel that case insensitive filesystems are the result of good
> marketing versus good design. Even on unix, case-sensitivity is rarely
> (and by that I mean *extremely rarely*) used to differentiate between
> two different files having the same filename but only differing on
> casing. This isn't an issue of design. It's an issue of subjective
> preference.
> 
> Gili
> 
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:59:15 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> 
> >Scott Palmer wrote:
> >
> >> I think case-sensitive filesystem are user unfriendly in 
> general, but of 
> >> course they are out there (on unix only as far as I can tell, Mac, 
> >> Windows, OS/2, Amiga, etc... all were case-preserving but 
> >> case-insensitive).
> >
> >Coming from a Unix (mainly MacOSX, Linux and Solaris) 
> background I would 
> >say the complete opposite. Files originating from a case sensitive 
> >system work anywhere, files coming from a case insensitive 
> system don't.
> >
> >> The point is case-insensitive, case-preserving filesystems 
> are hugely 
> >> popular and deserve better support.
> >
> >Case insensitive filesystems are popular due to good 
> marketing, not good 
> >design. The sooner such systems are fixed to be at the very 
> least case 
> >preserving the better. :(
> >
> >Regards,
> >Graham
> >--
> >
> 
> 
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