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Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

From
Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2008, 15:03 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:43:35PM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an  
> OS designed for regular users rather than servers or programmers. Case- 
> sensitivity would confuse my mother.

Many of *nix servers are running web-services and samba servers, yet most users are even not aware of whether they dealing with case-sensitive file system or not, let alone being confused by that. This is because most regular users will type the name only once when they create a new file and then just click on this name. So case-sensitive file systems can really confuse only some badly written applications...

Dmitry
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  1. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  2. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  3. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  5. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  11. David KastrupJan 11, 2008
  12. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  13. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  16. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  19. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  21. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  22. David KastrupJan 12, 2008
  23. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  25. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  26. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  27. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 12, 2008
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