On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:52:44 -0600, Larry Martell
> <larry.mart...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.django.user:
>
>
>> So by stepping through a lot of code, I finally figured this out. The
>> new template was accidently named Rollup and it should have been named
>> RollUp (capital U). Weird thing is that it worked on a mac, but not on
>> CentOS. Thanks much for the help Thomas.
>>
>         I'm not familiar with either, but could this be a case of the
> difference between a
>
>         case-insensitive/case-preserving
> and
>         case-sensitive
>
> operating system.
>
>         Most UNIX/Linux variants tend to be the latter. The Mac may use a
> modified file-system to inherit older insensitivity (to avoid confusing
> users). I do know that, on Windows, "RollUp.xyz" and "Rollup.xyz" would
> be the same file.

MacOS is Unix based so this surprised me. Not being case sensitive
confuses me. But the Mac appears to be somewhat inconsistent:

$ ls
RollUp
$ ls -d Rollup
Rollup
$ ls -d RollUp
RollUp
$ find . -name Rollup -print
$ find . -name RollUp -print
./RollUp

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