[PD] case-sensitivity for filenames of abstractions on different OSes?

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 16:31:03 CET 2018


On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 15:26 +0100, Peter P. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible that an abstraction loads as  [myabs] when only a
> myAbs.pd file is present under OS X? 

Yes, I believe so.

> I thought that filenames on Unix Systems are case sensitive and that
> they are not so on Windows.

Depends on how the HFS+ filesystem was created. Both, case sensitive
and case insensitive are possible. I think some filesystems typically
used on Linux may have a feature to do case insensitive look-ups, but
the common case is case sensitive. 

Roman
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