Re: /usr/bin/head is an HTTP 'HEAD' request??

[John W Baxter]

At 6:30 -0400 4/18/01, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>I assume there's no actual reason that HFS+ *must* be case
>insensitive, and certainly no actual reason that *Darwin* is case
>insensitive.

HFS has been case-insensitive since it was introduced in the mid-1980s time
frame to replace the case-insensitive predecessor.  Changing HFS+ to case
sensitive when it was introduced a few years ago simply wasn't a viable
option:  it would have broken far too much.

   --John

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John Baxter   [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Port Ludlow, WA, USA