Determine OS and web server software

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 11:57:11 PDT 2004


Yes, that is what I thought. But, the windows server had two directories
with the same name, only with different capitalizations. Linux didn't
complain but my usb flash card did.

Joel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Ian Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 15:40, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > So, how is it possible that they would have had a name collision based
> > on case?
> > 
> > I thought windows  couldn't really tell upper from lower? 
> 
> I haven't heard the term "name collision" before (sounds like something
> that happens to expectant parents), but isn't Windows not knowing upper
> from lower precisely the problem?
> 
> I can have directory ~/Foo/foo/ on my Linux machine.  Windows would
> complain that these are the same name.
> 
> IanS
> 
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