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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: case insensitivity in TOS
Keywords: case filenames
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Date: 12 Jan 91 02:30:29 GMT
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is there any inherent reason why future TOS versions can't be case
sensitive, at least WRT file names (and directories)? i know that
certain (perhaps old) compiler startup code forces upper case in
several places (Fopen in GEMDOS may actually do this, or perhaps
goofy GEMLIB/alcyon). i always found it strange that cpm, msdos,
and tos could not deal with the difference between "a" and "A" in
filenames, and have not been able to figure out a valid/necessary
reason why the PC had taken a step backwards in this respect. i hope
the answer isn't "tradition". and i hope the answer isn't that it
would not fit in 192k...

the next logical question (to atari) is, if no real reason, is this
planned (at least with the TT)?

-bill
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