Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 03:14:36 -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: Steven Ehrbar <ehrbar AT oeonline DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cAsE sensitivity
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Steven Ehrbar wrote:

> > 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).

Well, thats what we need for OpenDOS!  Only since we have source,
we can make the "case sensitivity" work for everything.
 

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