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Re: Case-insensitiveness
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Re: Case-insensitiveness

  • Subject: Re: Case-insensitiveness
  • From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:27:46 +0200
On 2 aug 2004, at 07:49, Kumar Shailove wrote:

Darwin is based on FreeBSD, which is case-sensitive in file naming, where as
OS X file naming is case-insensitive.

This has nothing to do with either OS, but simply with the filesystem that you use. Both FreeBSD and Mac OS X support filesystems that are case-sensitive and filesystems that are case-insensitive. They simply have a different default based the expectations of the largest part of their userbase.


Jonas
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