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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: David Remahl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:55:32 +0200

I was under the impression that (case preserving) == (remembers what case a filename was typed in, and doesn't just show all filenames as lowercase)...

/ david

David,

Could please somebody who *DOES* understand HFS+ comment on?
David Herren (DH) wrote at Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:32:20 -0400:
DH> According to the WWDC session I saw on this, HFS+ is case insensitive,
DH> but also case preserving.
DH> Thus you can have two files that differ only in case in the same
DH> directory.

You really sure?!? I understood this debate ended by result that you _CAN'T_?!?

Definitely it was proven that things like "touch aaa; touch AAA" or "echo
foo > aaa ; echo bar > AAA" won't do the trick. What would?
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