28 May 18 09:42, you wrote to Paul Quinn:   
      
    PQ>> What do you reckon?  Have you played with any Linux gear recently?   
      
    HG> No I haven't. Once there was an ignition in me that should try it, but   
    HG> the ignition breaker failed. The reason for the failure was the case   
    HG> sensitivity for files and such.   
      
    HG> OS/2 isn't case sensitive. Any file/directory  name I write in lower or   
    HG> mixed case is always presented in upper case. The only exception I can   
    HG> recall is in the list of download directories for saved files/bulletins.   
      
    HG> There the name of the directory stays in lower case but it's not   
    HG> preventing the files moving to the correct directory even if it's   
    HG> presented in upper case in the directory listing.   
      
    HG> I admit however that the case sensitivity of Linux does have advantages.   
    HG> It gives you hundreds of varietes in naming things but that could also   
    HG> be a disadvantage.   
      
   Case sensitivity is something you do adjust to over time.   
      
   Saying "Linux is case-sensitive" is a bit simplistic. In the case of Linux and   
   other UNIX systems, case sensitivity is a function of the underlying   
   filesystems provided by the kernel.   
      
   This might not be the case for OS/2 where I suspect the case insensitivity is   
   in a layer above the IFS drivers.   
      
   Programatically it's easier to write case-insensitive filesystem drivers   
   because case insensitivity depends on which language you are using, unless of   
   course the drivers assume English and map 'a'..'z' to 'A'..'Z' and nothing   
   more.   
      
   Linux's cousin, OS X, uses the HFS filesystem which by default c   
   se-insensitive. Typing "curl" or "CURL" or "cUrL" in OS X's Terminal will run   
   the same command.   
      
   The arguments are still case sensitive, though! "curl -d" and "CURL -D" will   
   do different things.   
      
   Conceivably you could run a Linux distro from a case-insensitive filesystem,   
   eg. JFS created with "mkfs.jfs -O". It would be an interesting experiment.   
      
   Alternatively you could have a separate home partition formatted with   
   "mkfs.jfs -O" and have the rest of the system use the default ext4.   
      
   ZFS pools can also be set to be case-insensitive.   
      
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