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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Case sensitive TOS
Keywords: Not so good
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Date: 24 Jan 91 22:08:41 GMT
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[ sorry for beating this to death... ]

In article <5265@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
>This is a nice little idea but with the ST disk format being compatible with
>the PC's at the current moment, disks with this system would cause havoc on
>PC's as well as old ROMs. PC disk compatibility is one of the best decisions
>Atari ever made for the ST.

yes, so let the power be in the user's hands to control how he wants to use
his sytem. if i toggle "old mode", it should not make any difference to the
PC. granted, i have to remember to do this, but then i also have to remember
to turn the computer on before i can use it :-).

>While a program writing a file can check which TOS version is in the machine,
>an old TOS version can't be expected to understand what a new TOS version had
>in mind when the file was written.

again, you, the user, could always toggle to "old mode" and NEVER have a
problem (from the desktop or with a trivial cmd shell oriented program).

ok, enuf of this. it'll never happen (tho i still think it should)...


-bill
rosenkra@convex.com
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