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| From: | Brian May |
| Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] case preserving vs. case insensitive |
| Date: | Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:35:17 +1100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
Aaron> Presenting a case insensitive UI is sensible and
Aaron> worthwhile. Implementing the case insensitivity at the
Aaron> filesystem level is senseless and worthless.
Aaron> It can and should be implemented at a higher level in the
Aaron> win32 API. Users do not and should not care about the
Aaron> implementation details of the filesystem.
If the same filename exists both in lowercase and uppercase, what
should the case insensitive UI do? Seems like it could get a bit messy
to me.
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Brian May <address@hidden>
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