On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:54:40 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>No no, I meant GLOBALLY: no filenames on the planet should ever have been
>case-sensitive! Nobody sane would ever name two files "Foo" and "FOO", so it's
>just stupid. I keep asking *ix folks about this--have for 40 years--and all
>insist "It's good" without ever being able to justify it.
>
I once encountered something like a coded defining bitmaps for printable fonts:
font/Helvetica/A # Bitmap for "A"
font/Helvetica/a # Bitmap for "a"
Made sense to me; I deemed the coder sane.
--
gil
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