On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:26:02 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote:

>On Feb 14, 2013, at 2:11 AM, Martin Packer <martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Not saying you're wrong but OSX is based on Unix.
>
>OS X is Unix, but the HFS+ file system it uses comes from the old Mac OS and 
>is case insensitive but case preserving.
>  
For those who haven't been paying attention, recent releases of
OS X allow formatting an HFS + filesystem as case sensitive.  I
believe this is required for UNIX compliance.

-- gil

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