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From: "Steven Ehrbar" <ehrbar AT oeonline DOT com>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Cc: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: cAsE sensitivity
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:38:31 -0400
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> What is ext2fsOS/2?  

Oopss, it's actually called ext2-OS/2

It's a port of the ext2fs and the Linux virtual file system code to
interface with the OS/2 installable file system manager.  Even includes
utilities to format at ext2fs partition from OS/2.

Due to a misdesign in OS/2, you can't run programs off it in OS/2 without
disabling case sensitivity.  So ext2-OS/2 has an available switch (usually
specified in OS/2's config.sys) which makes the fs act like HPFS when
dealing with case (and destroys all but one copy of files differentiated by
case only in a directory).