Re: [boost] [filesystem] documentation nitpick

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-12 10:57:50

At Monday 2002/08/12 05:28, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In "File and directory recommendations" the rationale given for "Do not 
>assume
>names are case sensitive." is wrong. I agree that there are case insensitive
>filesystems (FAT32 IIRC) but not all Windows fs are case insensitive. NTFS
>for instance is in fact case sensitive, Windows just tries to hide this.

so does the C++ most commonly in use on the OS.
You can demonstrate that NTFS is case sensitive?  I've been playing with it 
for many years (since it came out on NT) and haven't seen any 
counterexamples to case INsentitivity.

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