Filename case-insensitivity on OS X
Dan Sommers
me at privacy.net
Tue Jan 3 11:53:05 EST 2006
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
Doug Schwarz <see at sig.for.address.edu> wrote:
> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case
> insensitive. You can use other file systems, such as "UNIX File
> System". Use Disk Utility to create a disk image and then erase it
> (again, using Disk Utility) and put UFS on it. You'll find that
> "touch foo FOO" will create two files.
You may also find some native Mac OS X applications failing in strange
ways.
Regards,
Dan
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