[TxMt] Beware of creating files with names that differ only in case!

[Gordon Tillman]

Chris I believe this is the fault of the Mac OS.  For historical  
reasons I think the operating system will by default treat files that  
differ only in case as the same.

Here is a simple test....

Open the Terminal.

Create a file called "junk" with the touch command:

$ touch junk

Now create a file called "Junk" with the touch command:

$ touch Junk

Now check your results:

$ ls -l

On my mac I just did this and the ls command revealed just the  
original (all lower case) file name..


--gordy



On Aug 16, 2007, at 13:28, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:

> Why on earth did creating a *new* file in a project apparently just
> create some sort of symbolic link to an existing file?? 2 different  
> files
> "Distributions.py" and "distributions.py" both appeared in the  
> project list,
> and both had their own tabs. Does this have something to do with  
> having
> files that differ only in case? Very frustrating.

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