[tex-live] filename clash (upper/lower case)

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Mon Jan 15 08:03:17 CET 2007


Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:

>> Anyway, I suppose the reason filenames on Windows are case insensitive
>> is that it had been derived from VMS, which is quite old.
>
>   You know, Reinhardt, I understand you really really don't like
> Microsoft, but I still think Jonathan meant MacOS in the beginning...

Are you sure?  OS X has a case-sensitive filesystem by default, I'm not
sure whether you can switch it off or what Mac OS 9 does.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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