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| From | owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: NTFS is case-sensitive |
| Date | 2015-03-31 01:07 +0000 |
| Organization | ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand |
| Message-ID | <bbvh03.aw03@rooftop.invalid> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <mfbk7j$4fp$3@dont-email.me> <shfu30.3e@rooftop.invalid> <D13EEFD4.494C4%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <bvhe03fa.p3@rooftop.invalid> <D13F3528.49512%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> |
Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote: > On 3/30/15, 4:54 PM, in article bvhe03fa.p3@rooftop.invalid, "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. > You spoke of the program. The program is called Firefox. The name of the program is "firefox." The executable file *is* the program. What's written on the website, or splash screen, or an application bundle is irrelevant. When it's run, argv[0] is "firefox." That's its name. Get over it. > You goofed and > swapped the two. And the primary reason the Firefox file is called firefox > is because of the programming convention to use lower case names on files to > avoid the challenges of dealing with a case sensitive system. > The name on OS X for the Firefox bundle is, as one would expect, Firefox. No > need to have to change the case just to fit the standards of a less friendly > system. There is no requirement that the binary be called "firefox." They could call it "Firefox" if they wanted.
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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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