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Re: CLI Java Glitch

Date	2011-07-22 17:19 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: CLI Java Glitch
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On 7/21/2011 9:14 PM, Peter Duniho wrote:
> On 7/21/11 5:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I have been known to nitpick, but making a distinction between operating
>>> system and file system is far from that.
>>
>> That is true.
>>
>> But it is not correct in the sense of being complete that it is the
>> file system that is case insensitive.
>>
>> 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.
>
> There are lots of other things on a computer besides the file system
> that might or might not be case-sensitive, and you may even have trouble
> working with a case-sensitive file system if those things are not. But I
> don't see how that's relevant here, where it's the case-sensitivity of
> the file system that is at issue.

The topic is the original posters expectation of case insensitivity
of commands because of the OS (Windows) being case insensitive.

That has a lot to with the command interpreter.

Arne

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Re: CLI Java Glitch Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:58 -0400
  Re: CLI Java Glitch Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-07-21 18:14 -0700
    Re: CLI Java Glitch Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 17:19 -0400
      Re: CLI Java Glitch Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-07-22 19:45 -0700
        Re: CLI Java Glitch Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 23:17 -0400
          Re: CLI Java Glitch Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-07-22 20:25 -0700
            Re: CLI Java Glitch Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 23:38 -0400
              Re: CLI Java Glitch lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:09 -0700
    Re: CLI Java Glitch Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-07-22 18:41 +1000
      Re: CLI Java Glitch Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-07-25 11:25 +0000

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