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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:47:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From: <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970506163649.7805G-100000@55-174.hy.cgocable.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.970507094612.23273B-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl>
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> > > Personally I'd be happy to stick with RASH.
> > It's fine for a single user system, IMHO.
> 
> Can I ask multiuser? ;-)

Sounds cool to me.

> > 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!

If you don't want spaces, don't use them.
You can use spaces on EXT2, but I've never seen anybody do it.
Well aside from myself then, but I quit doing it, 'cos it sucked big time.

	Yeep

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