Re: case sensitivity

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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

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