Stephen Kellett writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | >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.
Yeah, but you could argue that it's not as big a problem with Windows, because Windows (and MSDOS) is a separate OS that is its own "standard" and has never been even minimally compatible with any other system. People expect that porting software to Windows will be a big deal, and will require a lot of rewriting. OSX is, however, a variant of unix. Much unix software runs on it without problems. They even seem to have fixed most of the problems with the aberrant CR line terminators, and switched over to the standard LF terminators. And OSX is pushed as a member of the unix family of systems. So you start using it, and discover this one really nasty little gotcha ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
