On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT, > Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case >> insensitive.
Aaah, of course. Why on earth didn't Apple move to UFS/FFS/whatever with the switch to OS X? >> 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. Oh, that's why. :( tom -- It involves police, bailiffs, vampires and a portal to hell under a tower block in Hackney. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
