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		arthulia on July 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What was the Windows “refresh” button for? NTFS is case aware, but not really case sensitive.

therein on July 5, 2015 [–]

How does that work? Did they implement case sensitivity and then decided to not use it?

rys on July 6, 2015 | [–]

It's more the case that NTFS is case-sensitive, but the Win32 APIs aren't.

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