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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:27:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Nissim <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>
cc: JP Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970505170459.7927A-100000@binx.mbhs.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970505192655.9545h-100000@capslock.com>
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Nissim wrote:

> On 5 May 1997, JP Morris wrote:
> 
> > >On Sun, 4 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > >
> > >> I give my vote for a case sensitive FS though.  It would make
> > >> things much more flexible.
> > >
> > >My vote goes to case sensitive too...
> > >
> > 
> > Don't come running to us when all your programs break... :-)
> > 
> > I declare and maintain that Case-Sensitivity should be _optional_
> > so that I can switch it off.
> 
> How optional? If you format your HD to allow mixed-case, if you switch to
> case-insensitive, won't everything break if your directory has entries for
> 'FOO.BAR' and 'foo.bar'

No you'll end up with "foo.bar" and "FOO.BAR" will be mangled to
become case insensitive.  


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