file name letters

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 09:30:57 EDT 2007


Hi

> Ouch, the well-known case-preserving but case-ignoring default behaviour
> of MacOS X's file system bites someone again.
>
> In short: Mac OS X's filesystem ignores case when opening a file, but
> preserves
> case when creating.

FWIW, Windows has exactly the same behaviour. Technically you can
change to case sensitive at format time, but I've never actually seen
anyone running in this mode.

Thanks

Neil


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