case sensitive filenames
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Wed Nov 5 13:12:53 AEST 1986
From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 86 19:48:36 CST
> There are also programs (the shell comes to mind) that use the eighth
> bit for their own purposes. I believe the shell uses it as a quote
> indicator...
I believe that in recent times, AT&T has made strenuous efforts to stamp
out such extraneous uses of the 8th bit, so that full 8-bit character sets
could be used. I know other vendors have as well. So this objection will
not be valid much longer, even if it remains valid today.
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 36
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