Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Message-ID: <2524@antique.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 19:23:38 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary:
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> <798@myrias.UUCP>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)

In article <798@myrias.UUCP> cg@myrias.UUCP writes:
>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!!

Definitely.  Please don't compromise this *feature*.

>Something I could probably live with is making DOS itself case
>sensitive ... but have the CLI/Shell accept either case on command lines.

No, not unless you can convince it to not do a full directory scan on each
PATH directory for a wrong-case command.  That would be a disaster for the
large number of CLI commands that are by default capitalized.

	Cheers,
-- 
	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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