Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/19/13:11:28
> I just realized - whatever FS we use, we have to be careful. Most
> DOS programs expect filenames to be uppercase, and many are written
> so that filenames are all treated that way - if we introduce a
> case-sensitive fs, we may BREAK many programs, however, as files may
> be installed in varied case (some lower, some upper, etc. )
Well AFAIK DOS doens't care about lower or upper, at least not that I've
found out.
Whenever I read a file from within a program, I uses lowercase letters and
I never get errors.
I think that only the Unixes (Unii, Unixces, Unices, etc.....) will have
problomes with it, because they are case sensitive.
But then we only need to implement case-sensitivity on those FS-types and
not on normal FAT (or VFAT, NTFS and maybe even HPFS).
So I dson't see such a big problem.
> How can this problem be avoided? Should we disable case sensitivity
> in our fs? We are trying to maintain compatibility with dos
> software, after all... :)
>
> Just a quick thought.
Yeep
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