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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:54:41 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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To: Reid Thompson <RThompso@ateb.com>
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Subject: Re: cat HelloDate.java >hellodate.java fails with cat HelloDate.java: 
 input file is output file
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Reid Thompson wrote:
> 
>  A question...
> 
>  /home/rthompso/JAVA>cat HelloDate.java >hellodate.java
>  cat: HelloDate.java: input file is output file
> 
> 
>  Is this proper behavior?( I do not believe it is).  

For the file systems that M$ has chosen to use, yes, it is proper
behavior.  Filenames are case insensitive though case preserving so
HelloDate.jave == hellodate.java == HELLODATE.JAVA == etc.

Earnie.

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