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From: Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 14:59:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-01, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2025 13:42:36 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>
>> But spaces in filenames cause me *far more* headaches.  They are the
>> greater evil.
>
> The real evil was the mishmash of DOS and Windows that wound up with 
> 'Program Files' becoming 'progra~1'. 

Yep!  I forgot about that.  So many files truncted to GUESSW~!.TXT where
you LOST the rest of the filename if you moved it to a filsystem that
didn't support it, then back.