Re: [Gnu-arch-users] case preserving vs. case insensitive

[Aaron Bentley]

Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:

>   Pierce> English is case InSeNsiTIVE, so having a file system as such 
> makes perfect
>           sense from the users point if few, even if its all more work 
> from a programming
>           point of view.
>
>   Good UI is ALWAYS more programming work.

Presenting a case insensitive UI is sensible and worthwhile. 
Implementing the case insensitivity at the filesystem level is senseless 
and worthless.

It can and should be implemented at a higher level in the win32 API. 
Users do not and should not care about the implementation details of the 
filesystem.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Information Technology
Panometrics, Inc.