[racket] reliable path comparison?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:

>
> > IIRC, there was no right way -- I think that on windows you can have
> > some drives be case-sensitive and some are not.
>
> Yikes.  Ok, is there a way to tell if a filesystem root is
> case-sensitive or not?


I am not aware of windows having different case sensitivity for different
drives on the same machine, but you can query whether the filesystem is case
sensitive or not via the registry:

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/p/p_454.asp


The setting can be inadvertently reset if you install .net framework 2.0:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929110


Cheers,
yc
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