Re: case-insensitive file extensions

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 08:05 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> i just want to remind you that ISO 9660 CD-ROMs have an 8.3 naming 
> scheme
> with all Letters uppercase. So if you burn a file.zip on an ISO 9660 
> CD-R
> this file will change into FILE.ZIP. Please also remember that, if you
> cowork with Windows users (this situation is very common in business)
> you'll often get files with mangled filenames (Windows is not case
> sensitive, but seems even not to be case preserving in some cases).

I discovered this interesting tidbit almost by accident about the same 
time as I was reading this thread. This is from typing commands in 
MacOSX 10.2.5 Terminal.app:

Eldorado ~>ls TEST
ls: TEST: No such file or directory
Eldorado ~>mkdir test
Eldorado ~>mkdir TEST
mkdir: TEST: File exists
Eldorado ~>ls TEST
Eldorado ~>touch insensitive.zip
Eldorado ~>ls -l insensitive.ZiP
-rw-rw-r--  1 fedor  unknown  0 Apr 17 16:53 insensitive.ZiP
Eldorado ~>