[GRASS5] MacOSX file name recognition bug in G6?

[Michael Barton]

It seems to me that 'pure' Mac OSX does NOT differentiate between upper and
lower case letters. For example,

cd /Users
cd /users



gets me to the same place.

also 

anthgradpc7:~ cmbarton$ cp temp TEMP
cp: TEMP and temp are identical (not copied).


Sometimes case does seem to matter, however. I just can't remember where it
does.

Michael
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Arizona State University
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> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:35:37 +0200
> To: grass5 developers list <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS5] MacOSX file name recognition bug in G6?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> today I worked on a colleague's MacOSX. Surprisingly I had
> the following problem:
> 
> #Remove MASK:
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (pat_gaussboaga):~ > g.remove MASK
> REMOVE [MASK]
>  raster
>  header
>  category
>  color
>  history
>  misc
>  fcell    MISSING
>  g3dcell  MISSING
> 
> #create file with name 'mask' (but not MASK):
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (pat_gaussboaga):~ > r.mapcalc
> "mask=if(isnull(po06_snow007),null(),1)"
>  100%
> [Raster MASK present]
> -> ouch.
> 
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (pat_gaussboaga):~/0.875/SCRIPTS/geotop0.875 > g.copy mask,MASK
> ERROR: <MASK> already exists
> [Raster MASK present]
> 
> Is MacOSX unable to distinguish between mask and MASK?
> 
> ######################
> Test in Linux:
> 
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish60):~ > r.mapcalc "mask=1"
>  100%
> GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish60):~ > g.copy mask,MASK
> COPY [mask at PERMANENT] to current mapset as [MASK]
>  raster
>  header
>  category
>  color    MISSING
>  history
>  misc
>  fcell    MISSING
>  g3dcell  MISSING
> [Raster MASK present]
> 
> -> works ok.
> 
> ######################
> 
> Surprised,
> 
>  Markus
>