Re: Changing the case of a filename?
Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- Subject: Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- From: Andre John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:53:27 -0400
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 05:50 AM, John C. Randolph wrote:
Let me just point out that there are other systems out there besides the
Mac, a fact which is often glossed over when Mac developers are, say,
arguing that resource forks are justifiable in this day and age. HFS+'s
oh-so-thoughtful inability to allow "foo.c" and "foo.C" to coexist,
presents problems when trying to build a number of very useful UNIX
programs.
-jcr
Whatever your reasons may be you have to understand that, like FAT32 and
NTFS,
HFS+ is a case-insensitive file system. If a case-sensitive file system is
important to you then you should be using UFS. When developing any
application
whether it be using Cocoa or another API, you need to take into account
that
the user has the choice of filesystems and you need to adapt to the user
and
the OS. Please don't argue the fact, since this is the way things are and
no
matter what your opinion is, this isn't going to change.
Andre
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