[fpc-pascal] FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 28 09:31:56 CET 2012


Am 28.02.2012 08:38, schrieb Noah Silva:
>
>     Windows supports multiple locales and has 95% of the
>     computer market -
>
>
> Not really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
>
> Anyway, if we did everything the way Microsoft suggested, we would give
> up real sym links and litter the filesystem with .lnk files, too.

Modern versions of NTFS support symlinks, too. Also there were reasons 
why Microsoft decided to use .lnk files: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/magazine/2006.09.windowsconfidential%28en-us%29.aspx

Regards,
Sven



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