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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
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Subject: Re: P8, lowercase & Sys Disk 5.0
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Date: 18 May 89 18:33:01 GMT
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Network Comment: to #7251 by pnet01!crash!apple.com!dlyons

> you just get a file-already-exists error, and the old capitalization
> is retained.  Not sure if this is the most reasonable behavious or
> not...

Mac HFS won't allow two files to share the same name (regardless of upper or
lower case).  If you have a file called "OOGA" and try to create a new file
called "Ooga", the Mac will complain.  I guess the GS/OS designers are just
following what the Mac does.