Mail Archives: opendos/1997/06/03/13:00:17
> From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
> MORRIS JP wrote:
> > It seems that at least part of the filesystem is already case-sensitive
> > internally. I found this on my HDD the other day:
> [[[ snip ]]]
> > MAiN tXT 7347 28/05/97 16:37
> [[[ snip ]]]
> > Check out MAiN.tXT, (7347 bytes, 28/05/97)
> >
> > No program will touch it with a bargepole, they just reference MAIN.TXT instead.I could remove it with Norton, but it's so odd, I've decided not to for
> > the moment.
> The traditional way of deleting this sort of file in CP/M is to load MBASIC
> and issue kill "MAiN.tXT"; MBASIC does not uppercase file names and is therefore
> both the leading creator of filenames with lower case and the easiest and
> quickest way to deal with them. If I ever experimented with GWBASIC to determine
> whether it worked this way, it was so long ago that I forgot the result...
Another way to do it is use a sector editor and zap the directory
entry, converting it to a standard filename. That's how I dealt with
a file someone created in Concurrent DOS once which somehow acquired
a backslash as the lead character in the filename. But that's brain
surgery; be very, very careful and you should probably update your
backup first!
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