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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: tell me i'm wrong (braindead design in os2)
- Message-ID: <By33u3.CvC@eis.calstate.edu>
- From: cwilder@eis.calstate.edu (Charlotte Wilder)
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:03:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.155901.717@msc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
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- tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927) writes:
- > From article <1egn4dINNklu@agate.berkeley.edu>, by ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth):
- > > i have just started reading about os2 and have bought a copy to play
- > > with. so far i've noticed three things that bother me:
- > >
- > > a) file names are always shown in upper case. is os2 case insensitive?
- > [deleted]
- >
- > First, OS/2 is bright enough to be case retentative, but not case sensitive.
- > Numerous utilities will give you upper or lower case output. If you want
- > a modern OS, at least dump the FAT system from DOS and use HPFS. Then you
- > get upper/lower without the $#&%##$ confusion of foo, FOO, Foo, FoO that
- > accompanies UNIX.
-
- Uh, is it just me, or does the fact that an operating system which has
- case retentive filenames but is not case sensitive to those same filenames
- bother you as well? This isn't just OS/2, but Windows NT as well. My
- opinion is that this is incredibly stupid. Why would anyone want to bother
- naming a file "Foo" instead of "fOO" if the operating system can't
- differentiate between the two? If the difference in those filenames confuses
- you, I suggest you go back to the all too secure and primitive world of
- MS/LOSS.
-
- And another thing... OS/2 seems to me like a 32bit MS/PC DOS... almost
- identicle except for the fact that OS/2 has built in multitasking abilities.
- Isn't that kinda stupid? Shouldn't we be trying to get away from the
- droll of MS/DOS and try to get into a more modular, usable, and yet powerful
- operating system? Windows NT attempts to breach some of the real borders
- of DOS, but isn't that great, yet.
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- Personally, I think I'll wait until the fanciful release of OS/2 v3.0,
- when IBM gets a REAL kernel into there, Mach. Hopefully they won't
- disable case sensitivity to filenames as a "feature". If you want those
- kinds of features, get a Mac.
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