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From: "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Permutation generator in ada library
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:57:39 +0200
Date: 2014-10-03T18:57:39+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0mkgk$bdm$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c97vvvF3dpmU1@mid.individual.net>

On 2014-10-03 18:08, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> 
> (OMG, fiddling with this question made me realise that Mac OS-X uses, by
> default, case-insensitive file names, although it is otherwise
> Unix-type. Funny things happen, for example the command "mv -i aaa AAA"
> asks me if I want to "overwrite AAA? (y/n [n])" - but there is no AAA...)

It's because they call it 'case-preserving'.
But it's not really mac-os, its the file system hfs+.
If you format a drive as udf (I think it's called) you get a
case-sensitive file systems, even on a mac.
very confusing ...


--
Björn


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  0:36 Permutation generator in ada library Stribor40
2014-10-03  4:01 ` Stribor40
2014-10-03  4:34   ` AdaMagica
2014-10-03  4:47     ` Stribor40
2014-10-03 19:32       ` Shark8
2014-10-03 20:47         ` Simon Wright
2014-10-04  3:01           ` Shark8
2014-10-04  7:05             ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 22:29           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-10-03  4:51     ` Stribor40
2014-10-03  6:28       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-10-03 10:10         ` Stribor40
2014-10-03 11:13           ` Simon Wright
2014-10-03  4:36   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-10-03  4:42     ` Stribor40
2014-10-03 11:00   ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-03 16:08     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-10-03 16:57       ` Björn Lundin [this message]
2014-10-03 12:54 ` john
2014-10-03 18:50 ` jpwoodruff
2014-10-04 18:06   ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-10-09 22:37     ` Randy Brukardt
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