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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC
Date: 12 Jun 2002 21:19:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

"Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden> writes:

> I thought that MS filesystems preserve case, and it's up to an application
> whether or not it ignores it.  MS applications usually ignore case; ports
> from UNIX usually respect case.

Such ports are broken, the underlying filesystem is case-insensitive.
If applications ignore this, they are prone to destroying data by
overwriting readme.txt with ReadMe.txt without warning the user.





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