From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-09 14:25:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EE4F7A3.5080805@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) References: <20619edc.0306021018.6ee4dd09@posting.google.com> <1054649187.11497@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0306031034.6a2f5f25@posting.google.com> <1054666439.685312@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:09:55 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1055192996 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:09:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:09:56 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38878 Date: 2003-06-09T17:09:55-04:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message > news:xKyEa.45844$ca5.11517@nwrdny02.gnilink.net... > >>One clever case where the convention was violated was in the >>name of the debugger on some UNIX system I used, SCO I think. >>It came in two flavors, "dbxtra" and "dbXtra". The former >>invoked a command-line version that ran in a terminal session, >>while the latter ran using a GUI (under X Window, hence the name). > > The Unix version of "make" also violates the convention, in that if no make > script file is specified on the command line, it first tries to use the file > "Makefile" as a script, and if that is not available, it tries to use > "makefile". Needless to say, this can create problems when porting Unix code > to a case-insensitive OS. Actually, "makefile" is tried before "Makefile". For GNU make, it also tries "GNUmakefile" before attempting to open "makefile". This scheme is handy if you want to pre-empt the Makefile with some changes you want to try (temporarily). This is especially useful in a CVS like environment, when the change may not be permanent. In any case, none of this is a case for case-ness of files. ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg