platformName Re: Casing in filesystems

Marcel Weiher marcel at metaobject.com
Mon Mar 12 17:14:21 UTC 2001


On Monday, March 12, 2001, at 12:47 PM, Peter Crowther wrote:

> Why not use FileDirectory>>isCaseSensitive to tell you instead?  Then it 
> works as more platforms are added. 

Yes, this is also important as a platform may support different file-systems.  MacOS-X, for example, has both UFS/FFS (case-sensitive) and HFS+ (case-insensitive but -preserving) and with normal mounts and symlinks, you can easily have this behavior switch as you're traversing the file-system.

Marcel





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