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Re: File extensions for C++ source?


On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:52:02PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
> 
> | gdr@integrable-solutions.net (Gabriel Dos Reis)  wrote on 29.11.03 in <m3ptfb7b9u.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>:
> | 
> | >  even Windows nowadays recognizes much more
> | > elaborated filenames than we do on Unixes.
> | 
> | This is utter nonsense.
> 
> As usual, I would not have expected something different in a
> followup from you. 
> 
> | And unless a program uses unusual methods, Windows *still* has case  
> | insensitive filenames.
> 
> I can access Windows partition (from Linux) on my machine and I can
> telle you what the filenames I create look like.  At the very least,
> they are case-sensitive.  And I'm not using an unusual method.

I don't know the state of the art on NTFS, which Linux does not support
well, but FAT32 only _appears_ to be case sensitive: it records the
case of the filename, but any other case will refer to the same file.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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