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Re: Case insensitive FFS



>>>>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:45:51 -0400, Greg Troxel 
>>>>> <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> said:

> Is the point to debug for things that lose on OS X and Windows, or
> because the feature is useful in it's own right?  I only see it being
> useful for e.g. doing pkgsrc bulk builds to see what breaks.

To see what happens on Windows, cas insensitivity isn't enough.
Because there are other restrictions, e.g. characters which are
not allowed as pathnames (":", ...), special filenames ("CON",
"CON.txt", ...) etc.
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soda





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