Date   : Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:40:16 -0000
From   : "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

> On 7 Feb 2006, at 14:18, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > It's interesting how important case is in written language, and yet
> > most operating systems have case insensitive filesystems...
> 
> Hardly 'most'.
> 
> --
> Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Yes, although a (spit) Windoze programmer, most OS's are case sensitive,
Windows and DOS are not case sensitive as the mere mortals having a file
called MyDiary.Doc and myDIARY.DOC etc. should not end in a misery of files
with "the same name"

I remember old DFS 0.9 (I think) used to let you have files with the same
name but different capitalisation. That didn't last long, did it. There is a
reduction in performance in changing the case of filenames so the "hardcore"
OS's such as UNIX/Linux are case sensitive.

Dave ;)