Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:37:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901040434300.11212-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990104122653.9163C-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Memphisto wrote: > > <rant> > > How the hell can you have a filesystem that retains case but is > > case-insensitive??? > > </rant> > It's a problem caused by M$. (Would be long to explain it) Um - you mean MacOS (which had this feature before MS did) was caused by M$? And yeah, I think it's a feature. Having used such for 10 years (on AmigaDOS, which inherited it from TRIPOS), I find myself doing "ls | grep -i stuff" an awfull lot.... AmigaDOS even managed to handle internationalizing it sanely. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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