Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS/OS and lower case Message-ID: <45264@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 7 Mar 91 14:50:08 GMT References: <44890@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 43 In article cmcurtin@bluemoon.uucp (Matthew Curtin) writes: >daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes: > >> GS/OS CAN understand lowercase, but ProDOS can't (at least not in the >> filename itself). So, the ProDOS FST puts the lowercase info in the >> version flags. Same thing with the "/" in filenames. GS/OS does allow >> "/"s in filenames, but ProDOS doesn't. > >Is that to say that the reason why I can't create a file under my current >GS/OS called "test/file" is because I have my ProDOS FST enabled? If it >is the ProDOS FST that is preventing filenames to be STORED in lower-case, >then if I disable it, I can have one file called "FILE" and another called >"file" in the same directory? Currently, you can't disable the ProDOS FST (anyways, if you could, you wouldn't be able to read any of your ProDOS disks). If you're hooked up to an AppleShare file server, you can create a file called "test/file", since AppleShare doesn't mind having a "/" in the name. However, you can't create "test:file" since the colon is a directory separator type of thing. If you have a file system that distinguishes between "file" and "FILE", you can create them and have them be distinct (provided you have the right FST). However, as far as I know, no filesystem that has a FST will let you do that. ProDOS won't, AppleShare won't, and High Sierra/ISO 9600 won't either, so you can't do it. I guess if someone would come out with a Unix FST (weird, huh? :-), it would be possible... Anyways, don't try to disable or delete the ProDOS FST... your disk won't boot... > _____________________________________________________________________________ >| C. Matthew Curtin ! Maybe the people with the most answers | >| P.O. Box 27081 ! have solved the most problems. | >| Columbus, OH 43227-0081 !--------------------------------------------| >| cmcurtin@bluemoon.uucp ! Apple II Forever! | >|_cmcurtin%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com!____________Support__Shareware!_____________| -- David Huang | Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | "Slight accidents with funny rays UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | can have serious consequences" America Online: DrWho29 |