On Fri 2003/01/24 09:14:48 GMT, Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mac OS X, this results in /usr/bin/head getting overwritten because > > the file system isn't case sensitive. > > This is a well known bug with installing libwww on MacOS/X and was reported on > Usenet some time ago. Because the MacOS/X startup scripts use "head" to look > at the first few lines of a file, and because HPFS+ can't tell the difference > between "HEAD" and "head" you find startup scripts fail.
Getting somewhat off-topic here, but... I'm planning on buying a laptop this year and have been seriously thinking about a PowerBook. Is it possible to use a fs other than HPFS+ (a case-insensitive Unix fs is a really dumb idea)? Does using a case-sensitive fs break anything? Thanks.
