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Subject: Re: AppleFest
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Date: 10 May 89 22:05:08 GMT
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>The Control Panel NDA is a file called "CtlPanel.NDA" (yes, the ProDOS FST
>does allow for lower-case names in files now!) in the *:System:Desk.Accs folde
>CDEVs are the short-hand name for Control Panel modules.  They are present
>in the *:System:CDevs folder, and can include init code as well as code that
>operates when the NDA is selected.  The CDev format isn't available yet, but
>they are entirely resources (the data forks are empty).

Matt & Crew -- How is the lowercase in filenames handled? (exactly) -- are
the actual filenames out on the drive in lowercase, can the FST just HANDLE
lowercase names and then it converts them to uppercase, or does it physically
store the name as "CtlPanel.NDA" out in the directory entry?  If it _does_
do this (physically store it), then how can ProDOS/8 read those files?
Or, will we see a newer version of ProDOS/8 to which upper and lower case is
different (and significant)??

Humor me if this was explained at one of the many technical sessions at
Applefest to which I was unable to go..  :-)

>Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc.

andy

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