Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:19:04 +0200
Yes, that was exactly what I meant. I tried, like you, to explain what
case preservation is, and is not, but I realize I was a bit to terse ;-)
/ david
Look at it this way, if you have a file "Foo" and a file "foo" in the
same directory, and the file system is case-insensitive, then how do
the names of the files differ? They don't. Since they're exactly the
same name (case-insensitive, remember), they can't co-exist.
Case-preserving just means that it'll remember how you typed the cases
when you created the file, so "Foo" stays "Foo". But if you refer to
it as "foo" somewhere, it'll work, because the system is case
insensitive. This wouldn't work if "foo" could be a different file.
So your impression is correct, just not relevant to whether two files
in the same directory can have names that differ only in case.
Put yet *another* way, just because it remembers what case the filename
was typed with, doesn't mean it uses that information for anything
other than display.
-Patrick
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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