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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Potential serious FS problem
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:52:49 +0100
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> I just realized - whatever FS we use, we have to be careful.  Most 
> DOS programs expect filenames to be uppercase, and many are written 
> so that filenames are all treated that way - if we introduce a 
> case-sensitive fs, we may BREAK many programs, however, as files may 
> be installed  in varied case (some lower, some upper, etc. )

Well AFAIK DOS doens't care about lower or upper, at least not that I've
found out.
Whenever I read a file from within a program, I uses lowercase letters and
I never get errors.
I think that only the Unixes (Unii, Unixces, Unices, etc.....) will have
problomes with it, because they are case sensitive.
But then we only need to implement case-sensitivity on those FS-types and
not on normal FAT (or VFAT, NTFS and maybe even HPFS).
So I dson't see such a big problem.
 
> How can this problem be avoided?  Should we disable case sensitivity 
> in our fs?  We are trying to maintain compatibility with dos 
> software, after all... :)
> 
> Just a quick thought.
 

	Yeep