Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0 Quirk
Message-ID: <31752@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 20:24:26 GMT
References: <8905252340.AA18186@obsolete.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8905252340.AA18186@obsolete.UUCP> delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes:
>Was playing around with system disk 5.0 and found that indeed you can rename a
>file to another set of upper/lower case and have it work under GS/OS.  The bad
>news though is that if you rename the wrong files your disk won't boot.  i.e.
>START or x.SYSTEM or x.SYS16 has to stay all upper case or the system won't
>come up except with an error message saying it can't find a START, x.SYSTEM,
>or x.SYS16.  Would seem that this quirk is one we could do without.

This was true on some previous beta versions of System Disk 5.0.  Beta software
has a whole lot of quirks we can do without.

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