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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:29:24 -0700
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:49:59 +0100, Tom Anderson
<twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote:

[snip]

>The way Java does this at the moment means that 'java helloworld', where 
>there is no class 'helloworld', does different things on Windows depending 
>on whether there is a class HelloWorld, hElLoWoRlD, HelloworlD, etc.

     OP here.  Not on my system.

>That seems pretty shoddy to me. If you're a case-sensitive program running 
>on a case-insensitive operating system, i think it falls on you to pay 
>special attention to case in your dealings with that system: when java 
>opens a class file, it ought to check that the name of the file it's 
>opened actually has the right case, and if it doesn't, discard it, and act 
>as if it had got a file not found error from the operating system.

     But that is about what happened!

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko