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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting


  • Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
  • From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:30:17 +0200

On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 08:18 , Howard Oakley wrote:

On 4/9/01 1:04, "Andreas Monitzer" <email@hidden> wrote:

You can have two files in the same directory whose only difference in
names is the case, for instance "hello" and "Hello". This is important for
some UNIX-apps like apache and python, but doesn't matter for a regular
user.

That is not correct. You can do this in HFS+ (I have many folders in which
there are case-sensitive filename conflicts) so long as you do not open the
folder in the Finder.

Hm...

[blue:~] am% cd /tmp
[blue:/tmp] am% mkdir hello
[blue:/tmp] am% ls -ld ?ello
drwxr-xr-x 2 am wheel 24 Sep 4 21:24 hello
[blue:/tmp] am% mkdir Hello
mkdir: Hello: File exists
[blue:/tmp] am%

That's my HFS+-disk. /tmp is not accessible from the Finder, so it certainly didn't mess around here.

andy
--
"He was addicted to life. But we cured him"


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