Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 14:57:39 -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: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: JP Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> Once upon a time (on  5 May 97 at 16:52) JP Morris said:
> 
> > >> things much more flexible.
> > >
> > >My vote goes to case sensitive too...
> > >
> > 
> > Don't come running to us when all your programs break... :-)
> The Old Ones, yes but the New Ones, why?

We won't be running to anyone.  Since we'll have the sources, and
we (or someone out there) will be creating this feature, they
will also make it backwards compatible.

Mark, why would "the old ones" not work?  Have you forgotten
about the name mangler?
 
> > I declare and maintain that Case-Sensitivity should be _optional_
> > so that I can switch it off.
> > Preferably from the command-line.
> Yes, that's sensible - there should also be an API to do that from inside the 
> application.

Exactly.


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