Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 07:32:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cAsE sensitivity
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In My Oh So Humble Opinion, I feel that many of the people who are
pro-pro case sensitivity are trying to do something horrible.

Sure a lot of good hearted Linux / Unix people are going to be using
OpenDOS at first, but I think part of the point is to appeal to a 
larger audience. 

Case sensitivity just makes it that much harder to type things, and
simply gets annoying.  I would hate to see my grandmother typing in
things on her 286 running OpenDOS and can't get something to work 
because the file name is:	IluvNANA.txt

and she just keeps typing iluvnana.txt...

	If people do start messing around with a better file system,
	it should remain as simple and easy to use...

longer file names?     	  good	(if more.com is part of the dir command)
case sensitive display?   maybe	(if it doesn't matter what you type)


	But there are problems with doing this, in that there are
	a lot of DOS programs out there that will have fits as they
	try to read file names... so until we get copies of
	Professional Write for DOS with long file names.. it ain't
	gonna matter much at all.