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From: cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Summary: Do NOT make DOS case sensitive
Message-ID: <798@myrias.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 18:44:28 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <743@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> <38@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <359@b11.INGR.COM> <44@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
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In article <44@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:

>I agree with you entirely.  The point is that the Amiga SHOULD be case
>sensitive at the DOS/EXEC level, but currently is not.  Until that
>happens we are left to make do with the current situation.  Many times
>I've had to log in the Unix machine to rename files so that some of my 
>Makefiles would work.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

Please do NOT make DOS case sensitive. I consider the way AmigaDOS handles
file names to be a great improvement over other systems (e.g. UNIX). It
allows me to have names that show up as meaningful on a directory listing,
and at the same time allows me to not bother with the shift key when typing
in command names. I LIKE this. A lot!!

If anything is done in this area, I would suggest a switch or option
somewhere (perhaps when the CLI/Shell is started up) that controls the
sensitivity. Something I could probably live with is making DOS itself case
sensitive (I'm not terribly worried about capitalizing file names inside
programs), but have the CLI/Shell accept either case on command lines.

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