[MacPerl] Re: Press article: Perl for Mac OS X

[Nathaniel Irons <lexical@bumppo.net>]

On 7/14/00 at 5:12 PM, domo@computer.org (Dominic Dunlop) wrote:

> >He says that the only problem he's encountered while porting 
> >software is related to HFS Plus. Filenames in HFS Plus are case 
> >sensitive, but not case distinguishable.
...
> >"Maybe we can port some other file systems available to us after OS 
> >X ships," he adds.

The perl info is accurate, but this filesystem complaint is mostly moot, as Mac
OS X is on record supporting UFS as well as HFS+.  Unix weenies will be able to
clutter up their directories with bafflingly similar filenames, and Mac users
(hopefully) won't have to reformat when they upgrade.

  -nat

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