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From: schmidt@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: aufs/hypercard?
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Date: 8 Dec 88 00:34:29 GMT
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Thanks to all who responded to my query about stacks on aufs servers not being
accessible to Hypercard 1.2.1 users.  Bill Croft identified the problem:

   Christopher, I think some item went by in the past about the new
   version of Hypercard:  it makes an 'open' system call with
   weird mixed case filenames such as 'FiLeNaMe'.  This is no
   problem with a Mac appleshare server, since it ignores case.  But
   aufs is case sensitive.  

   I think the mixed case open was to fix some other silly hypercard
   bug, but it seems stupid to me.  I guess you could add code to 
   aufs to get around this, but it sounds simpler to get a hypercard
   patch.

Armed with Bill's hint, our shared stacks are getting names like
t.h.i.s-i.s-i.t   Talk about a workaround!
--Christopher