Firstly, it's consistency. Secondly, it will break on case-sensitive partition.
Oleg On Oct 6, 2007, at 14:18, "Eric Iverson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK. So my mac situation (case insensitive) is normal. Then why did Joey point out that my lowercase ln example was wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Schott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beta forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [Jbeta] mac case sensitive filenames Eric, I believe Mac filenames are not case sensitive and no setting adjusts this. A googol search found many links at http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=mac+os+x+filename+case&btnG=Google+Search A short discussions of this in a python context was the first hit at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-January/360563.html and mentions an alterntative file system UFS that can be used instead of OS X's HFS, but warns that native OS X applications may fail in strange way using UFS. On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Eric Iverson wrote: + My mac intel and powerpc systems, out-of-the-box, have filenames that are + not case sensitive. I assume there is a preferences I can set and probably + should set it, so examples I give and test (such as the ln example in + install.txt) are correct for a larger audience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
