Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/23/04:12:12
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Evan Dickinson 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.
Exactly, so why are people so pig-headed against us adding new
features to DOS? NO features that are EVER added are going to
BREAK OLD PROGRAMS as that would be pointless, and all of the
new features are optional on a user to user basis so 100% of
everyone's arguments "against" the proposed additions and changes
are invalidated instantly.
> 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.
Precicely.
ie:
OpenDOS is now ready to format the disk, so you must now choose
what filesystem you want to use:
1) FAT (Previous standard DOS Filesystem with 8.3 filenames)
2) ext2fs (Mixed case long filenames with enhanced features)
If you are unsure, pick '1' or else press F1 for detailed help.
What is the big deal about that?
> > 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.
Just don't rename DOS programs to long filenames. Even if you
did though, they'd get 8.3 mangled names. Windows 95 works in
this manner allready (even though its method sucks, it works).
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