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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by dan-robertson on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:48PM (#29192958)
On the other hand their case sensitivity behaviour means that “cross-platform” Java applications can break if they are run on a non-windows platform where opening files is case sensitive (unlike on windows)
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by 908B64B197 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:25PM (#29194573)
It's actually a feature.

Easier to add a flag to ignore case rather than fix bugs where files only differ by case and are therefore overwritten on a case-insensitive filesystem.

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