2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
10:28 a.m.
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