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Correction to pitfall 13 second part
Authored by: cynikal on Dec 31, '02 07:11:43PM

it's not that mac file names are case insensitive, it's that the underlying file system, hfs+ does not honor case sensitivity.. (but does preserve it as noted).

this is important for certain unix source tarballs and executables (such one i ran into, perl's lwp library. it has a HEAD executable, that gets installed into /usr/bin and overwrites the default /usr/bin/head).



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