Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:48:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
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... :-)

Oh dear, we are having this discussion again.  Boring.  One
sentence summary:  Programs that aren't aware of mixed case get
mach-fs mangled names.  Look at DOSemu sources for details.
No broken programs.

This works much the same way that W95 uses LFN's, however it is
much superior.

> I declare and maintain that Case-Sensitivity should be _optional_
> so that I can switch it off.
> Preferably from the command-line.

Definately possible from the start.  I think that if ext2 is
added, that it will only truly be useful on 386+ machines, and
that ext2 routines would be promptly added to DJGPP transparently
so that the programmer need not know the FS.  Then all the 32bit
DJGPP apps coming out would have special ext2 features but would
still be fully functional on FAT, just no LFN's or mixed case.
Mangled names give both worlds.


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