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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: case insensitivity in TOS
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Date: 18 Jan 91 02:14:45 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.005041.22961@convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:

>it would probably not break any existing code. if so, how?

I wouldn't be surprised if lots of programs force filenames to all
upper or lower-case, because it's now legal and it makes them easier
to compare. You'd never know until you try, and discover that half the
applications that you didn't test don't work anymore.

Example: remember all the .TTP programs that didn't work right from
the desktop because it uppercases the argument string? I found such a
bug in a major ST application installation program that I beta-tested.

Yech. Let's encourage Atari to give us something useful, like say one
big master-ROM-patch that would be updated frequently and contain all
the patches that all versions of the ROMs need.