[physfs] What are the real benefits of PhysFS ?

[Daniel Aquino]

If physfs is not case sensitive then what happens when your on unix
and you have FILE.txt and file.txt in the same folder ?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Daniel Aquino<mr.danielaquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> hm ok so your saying that physfs works in a non case sensitive
> manner... that would infact fix problems on linux...
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Indy Sams<indy at driftsolutions.com> wrote:
>> Hello Daniel,
>>
>>        No, he's saying using physfs that it will find it with PHYSFS_openRead, etc.
>>
>>        It's only when adding files/dirs to the path that  you have to worry about the case of the zip file for example: file.zip != FILE.ZIP on Linux, but on Windows file.zip == FILE.ZIP
>>
>>
>> Friday, July 17, 2009, 12:45:38 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> DA> so are you saying that while using physfs if you try to find file.txt
>> DA> it won't find FILE.TXT ?
>>
>> DA> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Ryan C.
>> DA> Gordon<icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>> What file name case issues does it help with?
>>
>>>> On Windows, file.txt and FILE.TXT are the same thing. On Linux, they are
>>>> different files. Having all your i/o come out of a zip file avoids this
>>>> issue (or, at least, limits it to only worrying about getting the case of
>>>> the .zip file itself right).
>>
>>>> --ryan.
>>
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>> Best regards,
>>  Indy Sams
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>>  P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q & R were eliminated.
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