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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:28:41 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Tim Bradshaw wrote:

> MS-DOS understood lowercase: it just didn't care in the common way.  
> Did filenames have case at all? I can't remember.  Interestingly, other 
> than minority systems (Unix!) the modern standard for filenames seems to 
> be to remember but not care about case: this is what the Mac does (with 
> the default FS options) and I am pretty sure what Windows does too.  
> I've been bitten several times by Mac things which fail horribly because 
> there's a README and a ReadMe in a tarball.

One of my irritations was "Makefile" and "makefile"; I could never 
remember which had priority.  I standardised on "Makefile", but oddly
enough "makefile" was/is popular; I prefer my metafiles to stand out.

-- Dave