True case-sensitive filenames

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Jan 22 10:13:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:59:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:42:54PM -0500, Gerald S. Williams wrote:
> >If you have a Unix/POSIX answer to that question, I'd really
> >like to know it. I don't get very far with package supporters
> >by telling them it's needed for a Windows port.
> 
> I can sympathize.  Is windows the only case-preserving/case-insensitive
> OS out there these days?  Probably.  And, cygwin was supposed to isolate

No, the FS used by Apple's OS X by default is case-preserving/
case-insensitive, too.

Corinna

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