Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 13:52:42 -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: Joseph Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Joseph Morris wrote:

> > > > 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'
> >
> >No you'll end up with "foo.bar" and "FOO.BAR" will be mangled to
> >become case insensitive.  
> 
> Name mangling?  That'll do.
> Fair enough..

Yes, that is how W95 LFN's are visible to non LFN-aware apps in
W95.  However W95's name mangling algorithm sucks.  A much better
method is the one used by DOSemu which is stolen from MACH.  The
sources are in the DOSemu sources.  I can give pointers to the
exact filenames if anyone wants to get started.


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