Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 17:06:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nissim <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>
To: JP Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On 5 May 1997, JP Morris wrote:

> >On Sun, 4 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >
> >> I give my vote for a case sensitive FS though.  It would make
> >> things much more flexible.
> >
> >My vote goes to case sensitive too...
> >
> 
> Don't come running to us when all your programs break... :-)
> 
> I declare and maintain that Case-Sensitivity should be _optional_
> so that I can switch it off.

How optional? If you format your HD to allow mixed-case, if you switch to
case-insensitive, won't everything break if your directory has entries for
'FOO.BAR' and 'foo.bar'

...Nissim...
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