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Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? [message #36018 is a reply to message #35820]

Mon, 04 August 2003 05:44

R.G. Stockwell
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Registered: July 1999

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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1996c178820129639896c3@news.frii.com...
> Tim Robishaw writes:
>
>> But am I right? Isn't this dumb? I
>> mean, what a bug!
>
> I guess you could argue whether it is dumb or not,
> although in 1956 (or whenever the choice was made)
> the idea of mixed characters in file names was
> certainly wacko. In fact, it was probably those
> commie pinko liberals at Apple who thought it up.
>
> But there is no way in the world it is a "bug"! :-)

I'm probably taking my life in my hands, but I'm gonna say its a bug.
If the operating system allows case sensitive filenames, then IDL should
be able to work with them. I view the "never use captials" in the same
way I would view " never use the letter m in a filename".
(assuming the OPs description is correct. This "bug" does not exist on my
win2000 idl 6.0, i haven't bothered to check it out on linux.)

Having said that, i do agree that is insane to have case sensitive
filenames.
I do use legacy c code on the *nix platforms that take advantage of
the liberal use of capitals, drives me freakin crazy.

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.Bauer on Sun, 03 August 2003 14:27
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Sun, 03 August 2003 06:52
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: timrobishaw on Sun, 03 August 2003 06:25
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: the_cacc on Sun, 03 August 2003 05:44
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Sat, 02 August 2003 20:06
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 04 August 2003 05:44

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