Re: .SO files

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
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Subject	Re: .SO files
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Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2013-02-08 23:30 +0000

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"Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote in message 
news:0.4a92f4aa3839d40e6654.20130208212051GMT.87fw1633kc.fsf@bsb.me.uk...
> "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

>> Maybe you think it's a feature where the filename AAAAAAAAAA can
>> appear in over a thousand variations within the same directory. Some
>> people don't.
>
> No one has made any such claim.  On the other hand, you have said that a
> file system that takes a name literally is being "very, very fussy"

What else is it being then? If it is refusing to recognise a file because 
the capitalisation isn't quite right, then it's being unnecessarily fussy.

Case-sensitivity would be a PITA in most other areas of life and in 
technology, and is just as much so in a file system. Duplicate filenames 
that differ only in case or capitalisation are unwise and undesirable 
anyway, so what's the point?

So, if you had one file called "One Day in the Life of Ivan 
Denisovitch.doc", would there be any point in having another, subtly 
different one called "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch.doc", or any 
other variation?

Fortunately systems such as Google aren't quite as fussy, otherwise 
searching for anything could get quite frustrating!

-- 
Bartc

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.SO files bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-01-22 07:00 -0800
  Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-01-22 15:26 +0000
  Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-01-22 16:37 +0100
  Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-22 17:42 +0000
    Re: .SO files Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2013-02-08 10:41 +0100
      Re: .SO files Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-08 04:13 -0600
      Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-08 12:09 +0100
      Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-08 18:13 +0000
        Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-08 21:20 +0000
          Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-08 23:30 +0000
            Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-09 02:32 +0000
              Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-09 09:27 +0100
                Re: .SO files "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-02-09 10:09 +0000
                Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-09 12:11 +0000
                Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-09 14:15 +0100
                Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-09 14:56 +0000
                Re: .SO files clarcky297@gmail.com - 2013-02-13 07:30 -0800
              Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-09 14:48 +0000
  Re: .SO files BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-22 15:19 -0600
  Re: .SO files Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-23 10:25 +1300

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