Date:	Wed, 7 May 1997 09:02:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	evand AT scn DOT org
cc:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: cAsE sensitivity
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, randir wrote:

> In My Oh So Humble Opinion, I feel that many of the people who are
> pro-pro case sensitivity are trying to do something horrible.
> 
> Sure a lot of good hearted Linux / Unix people are going to be using
> OpenDOS at first, but I think part of the point is to appeal to a 
> larger audience. 
> 
> Case sensitivity just makes it that much harder to type things, and
> simply gets annoying.  I would hate to see my grandmother typing in
> things on her 286 running OpenDOS and can't get something to work 
> because the file name is:	IluvNANA.txt
> and she just keeps typing iluvnana.txt...

I can guarantee you that nobody will force you or your grandmother to use
case-sensitive filenames.  There are lots of people here who want
them *as an option*.  Those of us who don't want case-sensitivity won't
use that option.

There are lots of us talking about what we'd like to see; but nobody can
make you install the ones you don't want.

> 
> 	If people do start messing around with a better file system,
> 	it should remain as simple and easy to use...
> 
> longer file names?     	  good	(if more.com is part of the dir command)
> case sensitive display?   maybe	(if it doesn't matter what you type)
> 
> 
> 	But there are problems with doing this, in that there are
> 	a lot of DOS programs out there that will have fits as they
> 	try to read file names... so until we get copies of
> 	Professional Write for DOS with long file names.. it ain't
> 	gonna matter much at all. 

And so we'll work around that problem.  Just give old DOS programs a
shortened filename.

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