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| From | Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: CLI Java Glitch |
| Date | 2011-06-21 22:52 +0100 |
| Organization | Stack Usenet News Service |
| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106212250030.6476@urchin.earth.li> (permalink) |
| References | <meevv65a675khs5c9goa9sp6f2hotf1321@4ax.com> <itogee$k8r$1@localhost.localdomain> |
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:24:53 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>> Dear Java'ers:
>>
>> Given
>>
>> class HelloWorld
>> {
>> public static void main(String[] args)
>> {
>> System.out.println("Hello, world!");
>> }
>> }
>>
>> is there any way around the following?
>>
> Nope: out it down to the non-intuitive ways some OSen handle file names.
> There's a big difference between:
>
> (1) an OS that stores a file name as input but does caseless name
> comparisons when parsing a request to find a file (Windows from Win95
> onwards)
>
> and
>
> (2) one that converts file names to, say, upper case when they're stored
> and *then* does caseless comparisons. (DOS, Windows to 3.11)
>
> or
>
> (3) one that stores file names as entered and does case-sensitive
> comparisons. (all UNIX family OSen)
Ahem. The UNIX-family MacOS X - possibly only when using HFS+ and FAT,
although i'm not sure - does case-wobbly comparisons. Case is preserved,
but i think it is ignored when paths are looked up. It's been a while
since i worked on OS X, so i forget the details.
tom
--
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river
and he's not the same man. -- Heraclitus
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