Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Greg Ewing]

Neil Hodgson wrote:
> 
>    While I /know/ that Unix file names are case sensitive, that doesn't stop
> me from mistyping them. This is something Windows and Macintosh do right -
> removing a cause of error for no real limitation in functionality.

The Macintosh solution to the problem of mistyped file names
is not to require users to type file names at all, other than
when creating the file. That has nothing to do with case
sensitivity!

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