On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:58:53PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > > > So, why are 'linux' filesystems case sensitive? > > Because Linux is modeled after Unix system, which for roughly twenty > years before the first version of Linux was released used case sensitive > filesystems. All the users expected case sensitive filesystems. Actually, windows NT has a POSIX subsystem, and if you use it, files are case sensitive too. Kurt -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/