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Subject: Re: Permutation generator in ada library
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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 ...


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Björn