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	2013-02-09 14:56 +0000

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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 02:32:56 +0000, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

>> Yes, it's amazing what the clever people at Google have achieved,
>> hampered as they are by having chosen to use a case-sensitive file
>> system.

>        - Comparisons of host names MUST be case-insensitive;

There might be other reasons for that. For example, to prevent 30,000-odd
other companies from having host names that are just variations of www dot
microsoft dot com.

However, that's pretty much the same common sense approach that deems all
upper/lower case combinations of an individual's name to be equivalent. Or 
their street address or city name. (Imagine sending some mail to a LONDON 
address, and having it returned to sender! Yet file systems that do that are 
so clever!)

-- 
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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