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From: mattd@APPLE.COM (Matt Deatherage)
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Subject: Re: AppleFest
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Date: 11 May 89 04:16:44 GMT
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The two bytes VERSION and MINVERSION in each directory entry have never been
used by ProDOS 8; these are now used to flag lower-case letters in a similar
method to the way AppleWorks uses the auxtype to keep lower-case in document
names.

The only time ProDOS 8 used those fields was in opening subdirectories; P8
v1.8 (on 5.0) no longer does this.  So anyone using lower-case letters in
subdirectory names will require the use of ProDOS 8 1.8 in the 8-bit world
to read them.

--Matt