From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:31:03 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <4dffe2ea$0$57121$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pda5321a5622e0b4f28279ed3b97a9aae2cdd1375befa4205.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news.ecp.fr!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5586 Tom Anderson wrote: > > It would certainly have been better to say file system rather than > operating system, i agree. However, the file system is part of the > operating system. Often it isn't. Many OSes support multiple file systems. Some are case-sensitive, some -insensitive. > If the operating system's file system is > case-insensitive when dealing with file paths, then the operating system > is case-insensitive when dealing with file paths. I don't think my > phrasing is incorrect. Only true if the OS only supports filesystems of one type or the other. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University