Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 10:00:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT gulliver DOT qc DOT ca>
To: jamesl AT albany DOT net
cc: Ben Schollnick <bscholl AT eznet DOT net>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jim Lefavour wrote:

> In that matter, you could use ext2 (which is definately freely 
> available) and create the search function so that it is 
> case-insensitive, either by default or by command line switch...

This is the kind of things that makes for a *really* flexible OS that
*everyone* (hackers and "normal people") are going to use: configurable
all the way, with a set of "reasonable" defaults. It should not be a
command line switch to every command you issue, rather a parameter of the
IFS or even better, a parameter of the shell (so that multiple users on a
same machine can set up their respective shell with the option they each
want, with or without case-sensitiveness).

Pierre Phaneuf

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