Date:	Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:58:39 +0200
From:	mitnits AT bgumail DOT bgu DOT ac DOT il (Roman Mitnitski )
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Dos file system?Why?

 Hi .
I'm using djgpp for a while - it makes my dos quite like UN*X... BUT!
I've got fed up with non-casesensitive 13-char MS-DOS file system.
 The following idea seemed to be obvious to me:
why not to write extender for dos to allow faked long case-sens. names:
say, you will have hidden spec. file in directory, telling how
"UNIX-ish" filename gets mapped to DOS one.
Then, some resident program will hack DOS's findfirst - findnext calls.
(Of course doing that is complex task, but, no doubt, it is possible)
Yet another idea solving same problem:
Make little change in the djgpp code to make it look in the file
describing unix-dos filenames matches when djgpp include files,
or expanding command line. It (I think) will do a lot for g++ programmer
(consider #include <String.h> and #include <_string.h>)

Now, here goes the question:
 Maybe there's already exist such a programs? sucha changes for djgpp?
Any objections for ideas stated above?

 Thanx.

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