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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: 2nd time:How to remove files?
Keywords: remove, unix, corefiles
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:40:29 GMT


puchalek@skynyrd.rutgers.edu (michael) writes:


>I keep getting files added to my working directory such as 'xerrors'
>and '.nfs***'. If I put a line in my .login that says 'rm xerrors', a
>'xerrors:no such file' message appears every time I log in. If I leave
>the 'rm xerrors' line out of my .login, the 'xerrors' file starts to
>show up in my root directory.  The '.nfs***' files appear whenever I
>am working in the text editor, emacs in this case. I have uncommented 
>the line 'limit coredumpsize 0' in my .login.  Any suggestions? If it is 
>more convenient to email, that's fine.

You have to ask your sysadm why "xerrors" file showed up in the first
place. Now, about removing the file.

The error msg "xerrors:no such file" is due to the fact that there is
no "xerrors" file. You might want to use :

rm -f xerrors


-- budi
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:04:49 GMT
 <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu>
Organization: EDS Unigraphics, Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: rivero

In article <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
> In article <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>>
>>>UNIX was designed by hackers for hackers (or by programmers for programmers,
>>>whichever you like best). But it is flexible, programmable, etc. so it could be
>>>made to a real end-user system. And why not?
>>
>>I thought Unix was written by Bell as a word-processing system
>>to enable them write their the phone company manuals. 
> 
> I heard that, but I also heard that Thompson's *primary* goal was to
> find a machine for playing Space War.  What's the story?
> 

  The way I heard it was that the Bell Labs had a wide variety of machines
which had accumulated, and UNIX was developed so that all the different
machines would have the same "front end", thereby making it easier for
users to move from machine to machine. In order to make UNIX system
independant, it was written in a high level language for which a compiler was
avalable on all the different machines. The name UNIX was supposed to
signify that it was the universal operating system. At the time, the idea of
different machines having identical operating systems was not only
unheard of, but considered dangerous by computer vendors. Seems that having to
learn a new OS was one of the key reasons customers stayed with a vendor year
after year. A universal OS made it easier for customers to look
at other machines, and "horror of horrors" actually change hardware vendors!!!!

  In the long run, UNIX's portability and popularity won out. Bell labs
announced their UNIX release amidst a flurry of press statements which implied
that it was an officially developed Bell product, and not the result of an ad
hoc "back room" effort by the programmers.



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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:37:03 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares) writes:

>peter@global.hacktic.nl writes:
>>pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares) writes:
>>
>>>	Before you try to convince people of unix's flaws, I suggest you
>>>first make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.
>>
>>Where can I get toll-free support for Linux?

>	You can't. You can't get it for anything Microsoft sells either.

But wouldn't it be great to have anyway?

>But that's not even the point. You listed a dozen or so things Unix "needs",
>about half of which were complete and total bullshit. "Unix needs a more
>powerful command-line" is one of the stupidest things I've ever read on
>Usenet.

Please don't put words I've never said in my mouth! Getting personal in a
discussion isn't exactly polite either. If you don't have arguments to convince
your 'oponents' of their wrong, then it's better to shut up.
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?  (long)
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:09:44 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>A short list of DOS applications ported to UNIX:

It's going to get slightly shorter:

>Framemaker

Nope, other way around.  Frame was a *UNIX* application ported to the
Mac and to Windows.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: gglass07@ursa.calvin.edu (Gideon Glass)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:19:15 GMT

papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:

>Why is it, in VI if I try to save a file without a name it doesn't prompt
>me for a name?  Instead it kicks me back to vi.  Or if I try to quit without
>saving.  Why doesn't it ask me "Save y/n."  There is no reason VI couldn't
>have an "expert" mode that got rid of messages for those that don't want
>them.

[Lots more deleted]

Listen, if you don't like VI, don't use it.  Can't you get the point?
Those of us who like UNIX use it.  Those of you who don't can find
yourselves another operating system.  I'm tired of hearing your
marketing-inspired bullshit hype about how no one's going to use UNIX
after Window NT (or whatever) comes out.  Plenty of people like UNIX
fine without your stupid hypothetical novice-friendly user interface
strapped on.




--
Gideon Glass              </-=({[||]})=-\>          gglass07@calvin.edu	
  "The experiments of Skinner and other operant researchers did far  
         more than teach us how to pull habits out of a rat."
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano)
Subject: Running "dd" from .profile
Keywords: dd .profile
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:29:27 GMT

Can anyone tell me how to write a script that could be placed in the user's
.profile file that would check which /dev/tty port I am logged into and pass
that variable to a "dd" command line that is placed in the .profile file which
would then execute upon login.  Example .profile entries:

script to check for login terminal variable
dd if=file of=/dev/ttyvariable

Steve Scrivano
sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu
From: karell@cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: UNIX --> DOS remote printing
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:42:39 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

Hi,

Is anyone aware of packages (PD or commercial) that
allow UNIX boxes to send print requests to a DOS box
on a lan?

Esa
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Tel. +358-0 513 081 /home
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: wittig@gmd.de (Georg Wittig)
Subject: Re: Erasing words with less than n letters 
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:54:41 GMT

jota@iguana.iguana.pt (Joao Pedro Martins) writes:

>	Is there a way of erasing the words with less than n letters
>using unix ? sed ? awk ? The words (in a dictionary) are sorted and
>one per line.

	awk 'length>=n' INPUT_FILE > OUTPUT_FILE
--
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"In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits."
From: sasrem@herald.unx.sas.com (Randy Mullis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sed puzzler
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:14:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: unx.BxID4C.6Lu
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasrem@herald.unx.sas.com


Hi, I would desparately like some help with a sed problem that has been
driving me crazy.  

To spare you from having to read the details that follow, here is the 
basic question:  In sed you can use [^\\] to create a match on "not 
backslash".  Is there a way to specify "not \xe"?


Okay, here are the details. I want a substitution command to substitute
one space for all the material between a start indicator and an end
indicator.

The start indicator is a backslash followed by two x's and some
miscellaneous other characters.  The end indicator is a backslash
followed by 'xe'.  The start and end can be on different lines, on the 
same line, or more than one to a line.

The program I wrote to do this is:

if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]
then
    echo "noindx: arg count error" >&2
    echo "usage: noindx file [...]" >&2
    exit 1
fi

for FILE in $@
do
    if [ ! -s $FILE ]
    then
        echo "file \"$FILE\" does not exist" >&2
        continue
    fi

sed   '/[^^]\\xx[^ =]*[= ][^\\]*\\xe[ ]*[^$]/b block1
       /\\x[^e]*[= ]/b block2
       /\\xe/b block3
       :block1
           s/\\xx[^ =]*[ =][^\\]*\\xe / /g
       :block2
           /\\xe$/!s/\\xe/&\
/g
       :block3
           /^\\x[^e].*[= ]/!s/\\x[^e]*[= ]/\
&/g
'   $FILE |

sed  '  /^\\xx[^ =]*[= ][^\\]*\\xe[ ]*$/d
        /^\\xx[^ =]*[= ]/,/[^\\]*\\xe[ ]*$/d'  > $FILE.new

done

This seemed to be the answer UNTIL I was told that there may be another
backslash construct between the \xx.. start indicator and the \xe end 
indicator.  This means that I cannot use the [^\\] as a terminating 
condition.  

The basic question, then, is this: is there a way in sed to specify
"not (\xe)" as a terminating condition?  Any help would be appreciated.
-- 
____________________________________________________________
Randy Mullis (sasrem@unx.sas.com)
Systems Administrator, Publications Division
SAS Institute Inc.
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From: alan@ernest.itg.ti.com (Alan Edmonds)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: cron not finding script
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:04:24 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. - Plano, Tx

In article <92315.102834IETAM@ASUACAD.BITNET> Thom Anthony McCarty <IETAM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>
>I am executing a Bourne shell script, newsrunning, from within cron.
>I have given the absolute filename (including the path) but cron says
>it cannot find the script:
>
>
>helpdesk% crontab -l
>5,10,20,25,35,40,50,55 * 1-31 * 1-6 '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun'
>30 8    1-31 *  1-5     '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off'
>00 17   1-31 *  1-5     '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning on'
>#40 *    1-31 *  0-6     '/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches'
>59 0    1-31 *  0-6     '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire'
>10 8    1-31 *  0-6     '/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newsdaily'
>00 5,13,21      1-31 *  1-5     '/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newswatch
>| mail page'
>1,31 *   1-31 *  1-5     '/usr/lib/newsbin/utils/create-desc'
>

Get rid of the apostrophes.  You are turning a script with an argument
into a script ( with an embeded space in the name) with no arguments.

>Subject: Output from "cron" command
>
>Your "cron" job
>
>    '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off'
>
>produced the following output:
>
>sh: /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off: not found

Notice it says 'newsrunning off' is the name of the script.

-- 
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I don't speak for TI; TI doesn't speak for me    M/S 8515
Work phone: (214)575-6427                        6620 Chase Oaks Blvd.
Email: edmonds@lobby.ti.com                      Plano, Texas  75023
From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:18:10 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
: [discussion about people should have CD-ROMs deleted]

: BUT THEY HAVEN'T.  SO WHO CARES!  Sure the world would be a better place
: if everyone had CD-ROMs.  But if they *DON'T* then selling an OS only
: on CD-ROM is sorta silly, isn't it!

No, not really. The Grolier Electronic Encyclopaedia is available only
in CD-ROM, but would you expect them to ship in 500 floppies ? With
your argument, it's silly for any company to sell their programs in
CD-ROM, because not everyone has CD-ROMs.

Well, that's a weak argument. Just as you wouldn't expect the Grolier
Encyclopaedia to ship on floppies, one shouldn't expect that all versions
of Unix are available on floppies. It may not be practical. To give
you an example, (if I remember correctly) the complete info-explorer
manual pages for the IBM RS/6000 & the AIX operating system _alone_ is 
over 200 megabytes, and is shipped on CD-ROMs. And we haven't touched the
operating system code. Who wants *that* on floppies ?

Another argument is that you point out that not everyone has CD-ROMs.
Well, obviously one could see that the operating system was NOT MEANT
for every Joe-User. It's meant to be run on high-powered systems,
and those with enough beaucoup-money support to buy CD-ROM drives 
(which, for companies, big organizations, are pretty cheap nowadays.)

Regards,

-Ade.
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CompuServe: 74160,3404
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:39:07 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

dmcquaid@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Devin McQuaid) writes:

>>Where can I get toll-free support for Linux?
>comp.os.linux
>you won't get an answer in 20 min. but you will get your answer

USENET costs $$$ too. And administration.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? 
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:01:38 GMT

papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:

>>How much is NT projected to cost?

>NT will be priced to SELL.  It depends on the competition at the time.  Right
>now Bill Gates is sweating about OS/2, so it will probably be in the$200-$300
>range.

Yes, but when will it be available ? Solaris 2.0 will be ready by then.

>>Support and handholding comes free on the net.  I'm seeing a number of
>>places in trade magazines that offer support for Linux and BSD:
>>installation, troubleshooting, consulting, and so on.  So you get the
>>OS for free and pay a small fee for support.  Competitive, at least.

>Huh?  What net?  I've never heard of the net?  I just want to get a computer
>to run my carpentry business on, and this guy tells  me to get a modem
>and a TCP/IP connection?  Huh?  Whadda ya mean?

Then buy UnixWorld magazine, look at the ads.
There's "Ready-to-Run Software, Inc." which will deliver all those
publicly available software. They even have 1-800 numbers.
(That's just an example).


>I dont' know how many times I've told people, "Yes, Telix/Telemate/4dos/pkzip
>is shareware, but it's actually GOOD." and they look at me with an "Who are
>you kidding" look.  If nobody makes a profit from it, nobody has to improve
>it.  Worse, if nobody's survival depends on it, it never has to be upgraded.

Which remind me of articles I read in comp.lang.perl, that some guy
didn't want to use perl just because it's not a commercial software.

It's strange, but I found several share/freeware, pd, and gnu programs
to bet better supported. Look at perl.... 
If Joe User prefers a comercial program why not go with SCO or NeXTstep.

-- budi
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
From: sjain@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (The Warlord)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: unix encryption algorithm wanted
Date: 8 Nov 92 06:35:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

hi

I am interested in various encryption techniques. A good starting point
would be - I guess - the ones used in Unix systems.( I use SunOS 4.1.2 ) 
Does anyone know where I could get such an algorithm. ?  

please reply to sjain@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
I'll collect the answers and post them back to the net.

thanks

hursh
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:28:25 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>In article <Bx5Kzr.GBD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:

>First, I want a command line more powerful than MS-DOS's pale
>imitation. :-)

4DOS and MKS toolkit.

>Second, you've completely missed the point.  In order to achieve the
>power and flexibility of command-line operation within a GUI, you have
>to create a new window to *give* you a command line.  So tell me: why
>should I use a GUI if all I'm going to use it for is to open up shell
>windows?  GUI simply wimps out when it comes down to brass tacks.

It is easier for you, presumabley a knowledgable person, to turn off the GUI
than it is for a 'stupid' user to turn it on.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:31:07 EST
From: <KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How to give root permission to user??

I would like to create a script file that will do some commands that only root
is allowed to do. How do I allow users to use this file to see the results?

I think it is in the 'chmod', but I am not sure.

I would appreciate any answers e-mailed to me, because I am not in this group
too often.

Thanks for any help.


Ken Bauer
Systems Analyst      kjb6@psuvm.psu.edu
PENN. STATE - ERIE, The Behrend College
From: rm72@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert B. McCullough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:33:52 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

>>UNIX doesn't have these "user friendlyness" of DOS, because it isn't DOS
>>that's user friendly, it's the applications that were written for it.
>>One OS is no more "user friendly" than the other.
>>
>True, the problem is there are people, in this very newsgroup, who see
>no reason to try to make user friendly applications for unix.  To them,
>if you can't use VI right off the bat, or enjoy learning obscure, 
>nonsensical, illogical keystrokes, you should go back to the mac.
>THIS will kill Unix.
 Total B.S.!!    I'd love to have a user friendly application and VI
is it for me. It grips me to hear DOS users say "VI it's to hard to
learn". Come on thats why UNIX has got power, DOS doesn't. I'm not gonna
sit here and haggle about well DOS does this ,oh yea well UNIX does this
and etc. MY opinion like or not--DOS BLOWS!! Girlie OS.

Flame me, cry, whine I don't care.

Wasn't the Byte article talking about NT anyways?
  
-- 
Robert B. McCullough-Computer Operations Tech.
Registrar Data Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet: rm72@prism.gatech.edu
From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: root/field/operator
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:50:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov12.175054.19983
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov

Would someone please explain the logins in the subject.

Thanks in advance.

--------------------------- |\_/| --------------------------------------------
| Jethro H. Greene (Jed) | \`0.0'/ | Massively Parallel Comp. Research Lab., |
| jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov  | =(_-_)= | Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM   |
---------------------------   U   --------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
Subject: Re: Running "dd" from .profile
Keywords: dd .profile
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:10:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.172927.6700@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to write a script that could be placed in the user's
>.profile file that would check which /dev/tty port I am logged into and pass
>that variable to a "dd" command line that is placed in the .profile file which
>would then execute upon login.

If you want to keep things simple, you might pipe the output of the "who"
command through awk or nawk and locate the user by matching all of the
output lines with the "whoami" variable.  I am leaving this as an exercise
for the user, because there are a couple of nasty little problems which will
need attention before the script is bullet-proof.  You will need to resolve
what to do with a user who is already logged in to 15 or 16 other sessions
and has just logged in, again.
	Also, it would be helpful, later, to have this script as a separate
shell script so that it can be better understood, two years later, when
it needs modification.  Good luck.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: Where's head?!
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:57:26 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of jamesm@procor.dialogic.com (Mark James):
:I suppose I've just been spoiled by Berkenix, but when I recently
:began using Interactive's System V Release 3.2 product, I was
:shocked to discover that the program 'head' does not exist, nor
:does it appear anywhere in the documentation.  It's not even in
:/usr/ucb, although there is a 'tail'.

As others have sed, you can just use that.

The following head clone runs pretty quickly and 
even works for "hard" files, like /vmunix.

--tom

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    #
    # head -- perl clone of head command, but without heads silly
    #         limits regarding line lengths or binary data.  Also
    #         runs faster and allows pipes ("df|") as args.
    #                   tchrist@convex.com

    $num = ($ARGV[0] =~ /^-(.+)/ && shift) ? $1 : 10;
    die "$0: badly formed number: $1\n" unless $num =~ /^\d+$/;

    unshift(@ARGV, '-') unless $argc = @ARGV;
    while (<>) {
        if ($. == 1 && $argc > 1) {
            print "\n" if $deja_imprime++;
            print "=> $ARGV <=\n" ;
        }
        if ($. <= $num) {
            print;
        } else {
            close ARGV;
        }
    }

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
    "...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather
    dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head."
		Larry Wall in <1992Aug6.221512.5963@netlabs.com>
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:32:13 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>>Sorry, my Unix editor mangled your message.  The case where case
>>sensitivity is useful are SO RARE, and even where it is used, it
>>usually shouldn't be.  
>
>Oh, in our gopher server we use uppercase/lowercase/space as
>part of filenames. Looks better. Why shouldn't I use it.
>"Meeting Summary" is clearer than meetsum.txt, right ?

Yes, and, as far as I know, OS/2's HPFS and NT's NTFS will allow you to
call the file "Meeting Summary" if you want - *even though filename
lookup is case-insensitive*.

Just because a file system's filename lookups are case-insensitive
doesn't mean that it stores file names in one case only.