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At 08:50 PM 4/12/00 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> Are you correctly handling systems, like Mac and Windows, which treat
>upper
>> and lower case letters as the same value in filenames?
>
>The only conceivable response to this is "oh fuck."
>
>The answer is "no". If this issue is real I will need to revert to a base-32
>encoding, which has little benefit over straight hex. Please let me know
>ASAP if this is a real issue, and on which file systems.

Windows and Mac treat lower the same as upper case for file name lookup.

>Also, what is the filename length limit on Mac(l)Os(s)? There may just be no
>way.

HFS0 has a maximum of 31 characters. HFS1 is (I think) 255. You need MacOS9 to use the 255 limit. OSX is BSD. I'd just tell people to run OS9 or OSX and not worry about it.

At 08:51 PM 4/12/00 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Bugger. This is why I wanted to mung reply-to!

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