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Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.
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David Kastrup |
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Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists. |
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Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:27:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:53:46 +0100
>>
>> That file names are strings is not Posix-centric.
>
> Most other filesystems are case-insensitive.
>
>> Avoiding complications in design is not just a question of
>> accommodating "uneducated programmers".
>
> Simple designs have their demerits as well. Witness the "cat
> /usr/bin/emacs" snafu on Unix, where you can have yourself logged off
> or hanged due to the fact that text and binary data are not
> indistinguishable by design.
"not indistinguishable"?
Anyway, are you saying that terminals can't get confused by binary
data on Windows?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., (continued)
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Andreas Schwab, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Richard Stallman, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Richard Stallman, 2006/11/24
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Stuart D. Herring, 2006/11/27