Re: Changing the case of a filename?
Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- Subject: Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 05:29:47 -0700
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:53 AM, Andre John Mas wrote:
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.
Whatever your reasons may be you have to understand that, like FAT32
and NTFS,
HFS+ is a case-insensitive file system.
I assure you, I am intensely aware of that shortcoming.
-jcr
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong. -- H L Mencken