From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 04:37:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA08800 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:37:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 18642 invoked by uid 100); 4 Jan 1999 12:37:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jan 1999 12:37:06 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:37:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Memphisto wrote: > > > > How the hell can you have a filesystem that retains case but is > > case-insensitive??? > > > 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.