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Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 18:01:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
To: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
In-Reply-To: <862937885.11744.0@abwillms.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970506163649.7805G-100000@55-174.hy.cgocable.ca>
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> > Personally I'd be happy to stick with RASH.
> It's fine for a single user system, IMHO.

Can I ask multiuser? ;-)

> And what about case sensitivity? NEVER! I like the way NT
> does it. Case is preserved for presentation value, but
> I don't have to get the case right to name a file properly!

I'd love full case sensitivity that can be turned off (collisions handled 
through mangling). Case preservation is undiscutable. PLEASE, for the
command-line users among us (that's Open*DOS*, right?), don't let spaces
characters creep in!

Pierre Phaneuf


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