Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 01:25:18 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Rick Prest wrote:
:
: Can anyone out there tell me how I can make filenames case-sensitive?
Use a case-sensitive filesystem.
: This is not really X11 since this happens in Terminal.app too. I am
: completely flabbergasted. I have used OSX for a long time and never
: noticed this odd behaviour before. Did I change something or did OSX
: change? I am using 10.2.4.
Neither you or OS X changed. You are running into an HFS+ issue. Take
a read on this for more background information:
http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2000/
: localhost 11> ls
: NewFolder/
:
: localhost 12> mkdir newfolder
: mkdir: newfolder: File exists
:
: I can even cd to 'newfolder' and still get to 'NewFolder'. Wow! I must
: have been asleep.
Your shell is set to do this, whatever shell you are using.
: If there is a better place to ask this, I would be happy to oblige.
Apple's darwinos-users list, Omni Group's macosx-talk list, and several
other technical (but not X11-focused) lists.
--
Eugene Lee
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