Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:53:46 +0100
>> 
>> That file names are strings is not Posix-centric.
>
> Most other filesystems are case-insensitive.
>
>> Avoiding complications in design is not just a question of
>> accommodating "uneducated programmers".
>
> Simple designs have their demerits as well.  Witness the "cat
> /usr/bin/emacs" snafu on Unix, where you can have yourself logged off
> or hanged due to the fact that text and binary data are not
> indistinguishable by design.

"not indistinguishable"?

Anyway, are you saying that terminals can't get confused by binary
data on Windows?

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