Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:02:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Evan Dickinson Reply-To: evand AT scn DOT org cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: cAsE sensitivity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 May 1997, randir wrote: > 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... I can guarantee you that nobody will force you or your grandmother to use case-sensitive filenames. There are lots of people here who want them *as an option*. Those of us who don't want case-sensitivity won't use that option. There are lots of us talking about what we'd like to see; but nobody can make you install the ones you don't want. > > 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. And so we'll work around that problem. Just give old DOS programs a shortened filename.