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:junk@bbs.darktech.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:08pm
> To: Graham Leggett; Scott Palmer
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org; users@subversion.tigris.org 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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