Re: rename is idiotic (was Re: VFAT rename)

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
19 May 1999 11:07:25 +0200


"R. Kelley Cook" <KCook@IBM.net> writes:

|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
|> interpreting words in any human language.

This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
"Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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