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,dbcd0557f06cdbfa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-16 07:08:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!newsin.onlynews.com!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Only one compilation unit. Message-ID: References: <3B497F21.8CD784D8@brighton.ac.uk> <1luFIcjdO+HI@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9f6e2b77.0107160541.10707819@posting.google.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 16 Jul 2001 10:08:26 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995292510 216.44.122.34 (Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:08:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:08:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9994 Date: 2001-07-16T10:08:26-05:00 List-Id: In article <9f6e2b77.0107160541.10707819@posting.google.com>, B_Gaffney@My-Deja.com (B.Gaffney) writes: > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<1luFIcjdO+HI@eisner.encompasserve.org>... >> In article , Simon Wright writes: >> > John English writes: >> > > ... >> > We had fun when the source was called Foo.ads, under NT one of the >> > split files ended up also called Foo.ads -- which overwrote our >> > original. Also, GNAT does *not* like files with upper-case letters in >> > the name at all! >> >> Even on VMS ? > > I don't believe so, I think this is specific to Windows. > > I had a problem with this and GnatMake told me to submit it as a bug, > which I did. The reply I got was that GNAT was working correctly. > > If I had to guess (with fear of being corrected), I'd say that, while > Win32 allow mixed case, it is case-insensitive, and some of the tools > GNATMAKE uses are UNIX-based and case-sensitive. This probably > wouldn't cause a problem on an OS that either didn't care about case > (i.e. VMS) or was case-sensitive. As I see it, the VMS situation should be comparable to that on Windows when the VMS system is using ODS-5 disks, which are case-insensitive but case-preserving.