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> lack of filesystem case-sensitivity is also hateful. (is cygwin > still case insensitive with NTFS?) Yes. But Interix is case-sensitive with NTFS, because it doesn't go through win32. That's one place NT has it over Mac OS: the native NT API lets the same file system expose different semantics to the legacy API and to the POSIX API... HFS+ file systems are case-insensitive and UFS case-sensitive under Carbon, Cocoa, or BSD. On the other hand the OS X kernel is open source, but the NT kernel isn't even openly documented. On the plus side OSX doesn't require file extensions for executables (in appdirs, yes, but the appdir isn't the executable, that's down under the Contents/MacOS subdirectory). On the minus side... resource forks (spit) and Finder Info (spit).There's stuff above here
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