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(...) Easy to fix (in fact, one of the very first things I do with a new install): Open an Explorer window; open up the Options dialog (Menu "View" -> "Options") Unselect "Hide file extensions for known file types" Also, select "Show all files" (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) LOL! --Karim (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Windows is so friendly and easy to use..." "How friendly is it!" "Windows is so friendly and easy to use, that you can now choose your own custom background color and patterns for the BSOD!" --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Windows is so friendly and easy to use that it hides extensions from you as often as possible. I use Dreamweaver to assemble the site, but I was lazy and just used explorer to copy the dat files in... somewhere along the way, the extensions (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:06:26 GMT Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) in programming it's easy - if I want to name a variable FILE, I don't want it to be misinterpeted as a command, if one day an upgrade introduces (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 2 reasons come to me right away: Case sensitivity contributes to a faster and less-buggy environment. If you need to match a string against a set of possible matches (e.g. looking for a file in the directory, or looking for a variable in a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm, there must be a definitive FAQ or treatise somewhere on the net about this... --Todd (who has yet to see any good coming from case INsensitivity in a file system, much less a programming language; but who has seen lots of good coming from (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why is case insensitivity evil? What good comes from having case sensitivity? I have yet to see any good coming from case sensitivity in a file system or a programming language. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ObRef: cows were out of season and one of the hunters wasn't insured.... (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The filesystem in Win32 is case-preserving, but not case-sensitive. e.g. if you open a file named "FiLeNaMe.txt" but the file was really saved as "FILENAME.TXT", it'll still load. Compare this to the Unix filesystem, where "A" != "a". Why they (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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