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Re: File extensions for C++ source?
- From: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 30 Nov 2003 12:31:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: File extensions for C++ source?
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gdr@integrable-solutions.net (Gabriel Dos Reis) wrote on 29.11.03 in <m3vfp35d8t.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>:
> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>
> | gdr@integrable-solutions.net (Gabriel Dos Reis) wrote on 29.11.03 in
> <m3ptfb7b9u.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>: |
> | > even Windows nowadays recognizes much more
> | > elaborated filenames than we do on Unixes.
> |
> | This is utter nonsense.
>
> As usual, I would not have expected something different in a
> followup from you.
That is, pointing out the facts that contradict your uninformed FUD?
I think I should take that as a compliment.
> | And unless a program uses unusual methods, Windows *still* has case
> | insensitive filenames.
>
> I can access Windows partition (from Linux) on my machine and I can
> telle you what the filenames I create look like. At the very least,
> they are case-sensitive. And I'm not using an unusual method.
Well, you're wrong *again*. The filesystem is case-preserving, *not* case-
sensitive. At least not unless you take those special pains to access it.
MfG Kai