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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: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:29:26 +0200

On Wednesday, September 5, 2001, at 11:42 , Markus Hitter wrote:

Nobile:/tmp/test$ touch bla
Nobile:/tmp/test$ touch Bla
Nobile:/tmp/test$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 mah wheel 0 Sep 5 21:43 bla
Nobile:/tmp/test$ cp bla Bla
cp: Bla and bla are identical (not copied).

Just, the result is different. I'm using OS X 10.0.4, factory formatted HFS+ volume. What might be the difference between our systems?

Sometimes this Darwin stuff really puzzles me ...


One more:

[blue:~] am% cd /tmp
[blue:/tmp] am% mkdir test
[blue:/tmp] am% cd test
[blue:/tmp/test] am% touch hello
[blue:/tmp/test] am% ls -al hello Hello hEllo heLlo helLo hellO
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 Hello
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 hEllo
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 heLlo
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 helLo
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 hellO
-rw-r--r-- 1 am wheel 0 Sep 5 00:25 hello
[blue:/tmp/test] am%

andy
--
Discussion forthcoming.


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