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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:41:00 +1000
From: Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com>
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On 22/07/2011 11:14 AM, Peter Duniho wrote:
>> It is the file system and the command interpreter (shell in
>> *nix terminology).
>
> Huh? Inasmuch as the file system can be accessed, and case-sensitivity
> observed, without a command interpreter, I don't see why you are
> dragging the command interpreter into it.

I have to agree with that. I can't see what the command interpreter has 
to do with this at all. The file system is case-sensitive so everything 
that uses it is as well, including the shells. And of course by default 
*everything* in a computer is case-sensitive unless specifically 
programmed otherwise.