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Re: NTFS is case-sensitive

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: NTFS is case-sensitive
Date	2015-03-31 00:06 +0000
Organization	ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
Message-ID	<bhvh3e9.a3f0@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
References	(9 earlier) <bbhg03f.3p@rooftop.invalid> <mfbk7j$4fp$3@dont-email.me> <shfu30.3e@rooftop.invalid> <D13EEFD4.494C4%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <bvhe03fa.p3@rooftop.invalid>

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owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>> On 3/30/15, 10:06 AM, in article shfu30.3e@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
>> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:

>>>>> In your deranged minds it is a self-nuke for me to correct your
>>>>> misspelling of my name when you are using that misspelled name to address
>>>>> me in conversation, as determined circumstantially by the fact that it
>>>>> was used in a sentence where one would normally expect to find himself
>>>>> being addressed. "Hey, jOe, where you going with that gun in your hand?"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Somehow in your (French-influenced?) mush-heads, not continuing
>>>>> on as if the misspelling were without consequence, i.e. in the way
>>>>> that a case-insensitive file system would react, is evidence of my
>>>>> own case-insensitivity, and therefore worthy of a self-nuke award.
>>> 
>>>> Yes, lamer.  Exactly.
>>> 
>>>> A case-sensitive filesystem or programming language or gibbon wouldn't
>>>> have recognized Owl as your name.  You did.  Normally not worth noting,
>>>> except this time you did it while in the middle of arguing FOR
>>>> case-sensitivity.
>>> 
>>>> epic self-nuke!
>>> 
>>> So if he had addressed me as "Bob" in a direct reply to my post,
>>> and I had corrected him that "Bob" is not my name, that would
>>> also have been a self-nuke?

>> How about your self-nuke of referring to the program Firefox as "firefox",
>> and then your effort to save yourself by noting he executable file is called
>> "firefox" and not "Firefox", even though the program is.

> The name of the file is "firefox."  You know, a file, like might sit
> on the file system NTFS, the subject of this thread.  Try to keep up. 

>> It is largely of the inherent challenges of using a case sensitive file
>> system that they use all lower case letters in program names in Linux (or at
>> least generally recommend people to). On OS X which does not have that
>> challenge the mozilla team calls the program bundle itself "Firefox".

> That's irrelevant, but out of curiosity what is the executable called?

Nevermind.  Apparently it's "firefox"  :) 

root@thinkpad:/tmp/macfire/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS# ls
crashreporter.app  libmozglue.dylib                 libsoftokn3.dylib
firefox            libnss3.dylib                    plugin-container.app
firefox-bin        libnssckbi.dylib                 updater.app
libfreebl3.dylib   libnssdbm3.dylib                 XUL
libmozalloc.dylib  libplugin_child_interpose.dylib
root@thinkpad:/tmp/macfire/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS#

Thread

NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-27 22:46 +0000
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-27 19:29 -0400
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 08:45 -0700
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 16:00 +0000
      Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 16:26 +0000
        Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 12:56 -0400
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:06 +0000
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 10:32 -0700
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-28 13:08 -0700
            Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 22:22 -0400
              Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-28 21:40 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 22:23 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 11:06 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 15:12 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 21:22 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 23:08 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 09:18 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 21:22 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 18:27 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 02:16 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 09:49 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 08:24 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 17:06 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 12:19 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 23:54 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 00:06 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 17:12 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 17:41 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 17:15 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 01:07 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 18:21 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 12:24 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 20:46 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 01:52 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 19:10 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 11:35 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 23:09 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 22:01 -0700
                NTFS is not the best filesystem taka0038@gmail.com - 2015-03-31 18:52 -0700
                Re: NTFS is not the best filesystem Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-31 22:51 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 09:48 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 08:44 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 09:37 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 20:50 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 19:14 -0700
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 17:09 -0700
            Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 00:24 +0000
              Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 22:26 -0400
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 16:09 +0000
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 13:06 -0400
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:15 +0000
      Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:28 +0000
        Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 18:35 +0000
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 12:57 +0000

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