Date   : Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:26:34 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Grammar

"David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
> I remember old DFS 0.9 (I think) used to let you have files with the same
> name but different capitalisation. That didn't last long, did it. There is a
 
All Acorn filing systems are case insensitive.
 
The only time you encounter case sensitivity on an Acorn filing
system is when connecting to a remote server where the server is
running a case-sensitive system (eg, NFS connecting to a UNIX
server).
 
On any filing system where you have access to the underlying media
you can manually write whatever you want into the directory
catalogue. Some protection systems had every file with the same
name or with nonsensical names. Old-style HADFS disks have a DFS
file called "D I S K" on them!
 
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