[Year 12 IT Apps] More errors in Potts

[Russell Edwards]

Perhaps we should set up an errata page.

Please tell your kids to ignore table 4-19 in Potts... I don't know 
about XP but the Mac OS and and Unix columns are roughly 50% incorrect.

Mac OS X standard filesystems DO allow extensions (or any number of dots 
in a name), as with other Unices.

Spaces are allowed in unix but tend to cause problems.

Mac OS X by default is case *in*sensitive, a real trap for young 
players! It preserves case but matches are insensitive.

Unix is case sensitive and there's no reason to "use lower case".

Also I query the definition of "test data" on p 129-130. To me test data 
is data that is input to an application to test it... it can possibly be 
no data at all

cheers

Russell

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