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to: MARK LEWIS
from: HOLGER GRANHOLM
date: 2016-12-04 11:47:00
subject: Re: Diskcopy

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In a message on Sunday 12-03-16 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mark,

 ml>> you learn very quickly to keep your fingers off that damned shift key
 ml>> when typing... proper case has its place but it is not in source code
 ml>> or file systems  ;)  :lol:

 HG> Maybe there's still too much grammar in my head.

ml> hahahaha! i hear that... but the thing is that file names are not
ml> proper names like human names... that distinction was never made
ml> when we were in school... because there weren't really such things
ml> as file names at that time... not like there are today ;)

That's right. I wouldn't start a file name with an upper case letter,
unless it would be to confuse a user of a case sensitive system, .

OTOH, neither DOS, nor OS/2, are case sensitive.


Have a nice day,

Holger


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