From: Kevin Ballard Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:12:07 GMT Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <85abnc6jsg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:10 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> But considering that they exist, we should probably offer at least >> *some* help for people who didn't realize that you could make OS X >> behave better. > > It is not like Linux does not support some case-insensitive file > system > types, too. So the same problems can be had there as well. In addition, while there is an option for HFS+ Case-Sensitive, using that can cause bad things to happen as Mac OS X programs are written under a case-insensitive assumption and may behave badly when presented with a case-sensitive filesystem. -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com