How can I rename files in LMFS just to change the alphabetic case?

[Roland Zito-Wolf <RJZ@jasper.palladian.com>]

    Date: Tue, 1 Dec 87 09:44 EST
    From: Scott McKay <SWM@SAPSUCKER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

	Date: Tue, 1 Dec 87 06:35 EST
	From: Jeffrey Mark Siskind <Qobi@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU>

	There seems to be some very annoying behavior in LMFS regarding alphabetic
	case in files names.

	1) I can have a directory, such as Z:>Qobi> which has subdirectories
	Z:>QOBI>memos>, Z:>qobi>prolog-alr, and Z:>Qobi>remote. Why does this
	happen. It is *VERY ANNOYING*.

	...

    It's not really a "bug" in the sense that you are thinking.  The root of
    this behavior is that parsed pathnames are interned.  There has been a
    longstanding debate about whether or not they should be interned, which
    I will not go into here.

    There is a way to bludgeon around this, but it is fraught with potential
 danger, so I won't say what it is.

I've wondered about this too. How about if you put in a method to change the
filename string, under the restriction that the new filename would be string-equal
to the old one, ignoring case? Would
there still be cases where this would damamge something?

For that matter, why cant one set up some general mode flag which causes all
pathnames to get put into a generic form (say, uppercase the host and lowercase the
rest)? Dont tell me the filesystem is case-sensitive!

-rjz-w