[R-SIG-Mac] Case distinction on a Mac.

[Rolf Turner]

On 20/02/2009, at 1:28 PM, Gad Abraham wrote:

> Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> I have noticed that OS X sometimes fails to make a case  
>> distinction in
>> the names of files.  E.g. if I have a file ``junk'' and I try to  
>> create
>> a directory using ``mkdir Junk'' it will refuse to do so saying  
>> ``file
>> exists''.
>
> It's a (mis)feature of the underlying HFS+ file system that names are
> not case sensitive (but are case preserving).
>
> R is just carrying over this behaviour. OS X 10.6 will have ZFS (by
> default?), it probably won't be an issue with that file system.

Thanks.

Any idea when 10.6 will come out?  And when it does, how enormous a task
will it be to upgrade to 10.6?

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner
	

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