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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
Subject: Re: loaddefs.el filenames as seen by `update-file-autoloads'
Date: 13 May 2003 11:05:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buok7cv7g9z.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305130114.h4D1EDBZ010190@rum.cs.yale.edu>

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> Why do you need to upcase in expand-file-name ?
> Isn't VMS happy either way ?

I always assumed it was because doing so gave VMS users warm fuzzies...

[It's been probably 15 years since I used VMS (or any other DEC OS), but
lower-case filenames there feel sort of `less real,' since most apps
that canonicalize filenames also upcase them.]

-Miles
-- 
Run away!  Run away!

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12 22:30 loaddefs.el filenames as seen by `update-file-autoloads' Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-12 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-13  0:41   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-13  1:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-13  2:05       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-05-13  4:06       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-13 14:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-13 16:08           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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