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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TOS filing system for MiNT
Keywords: mint, msdos, tos
Message-ID: <1991May14.085938.23232@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 14 May 91 08:59:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1991May14.085938.23232
Reply-To: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Organization: Nottingham University
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I'm about to start work on an MeSsy-DOS filing system for MiNT, and would
appreciate some advice about the way it should handle filenames. Some
possabilities are:

1) Have it work just like TOS, ie. convert all names to uppercase internally.

2) Have filenames stored on disk as whatever case they were created with. This
is the way the versions of MeSsy-DOS I've used work. Within the filing system,
of course, all matching is case-insensitive, but programs calling Fsfirst() get
mixed case.

3) As 2), but have programs running in MiNT domain get mixed case, programs in
TOS domain get uppercase.

Any thoughts on the relative merits of these approaches? Any other ways of
doing it?
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