On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Stephen Kellett wrote: > >OSX presents an interesting portability challenge: The default file > >system has "caseless" file names. If you look around, you might not > >notice this, because mixed-case names abound. But the case of letters > >isn't significant when opening files. > > You have the same problem on Windows. Windows supports both upper and > lower case letters in filenames, however filename matching is case > insensitive. > > Try creating textfile.txt and Textfile.txt in the same directory. Can't > do it. >
This thread is getting alittle bit off-topic, but I'm continuing it anyway ;-) I have an Atari Falcon030 computer running the FreeMiNT operating system. (Never heard of ? Never mind :-) It is a sort of hybrid OS a little bit like OSX. It is a mix of the TOS operating system that is in the ROM of classic Atari computers, combined with a Unix-like multitasking OS. I have several partitions on my harddisk with different filesystems. On one partition I have a ext2 system that is really case sensitive. On drive C:\ I need a FAT filesystem with the old fashion 8+3 case-insensitive DOS file names. On another drive I have VFAT: long filenames, with upper- and lowercase, but not really case-sensitive. Some of my old Atari apps have problems with case-sensitive and/or long filenames. These are installed on my old-fashioned C: drive. Other programs, like ported unix-apps, run on my ext2 drive. And I have some apps that need long filenames, but don't like case-sensitivity. I can do it all on my 25 years old Falcon. -- Martin Tarenskeen To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
