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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> AG wrote:
> > True. It was some sort of a shell
> > script (with x/yz being a path
> > parameter).
>
> UNIX has case-sensitive filenames. Whining about this
> is as silly as people whining about Ada's type system.
>

To quote from your original post which started that:

} The only legitimate reason I've seen is that insensitivity
} to case allows people to alter the case of identifiers to
} conform to local conventions

Unix conventions anyone?