Subject: Re: RT-11 filesystem.
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/20/2000 22:32:23
> > bakfull# ls /mnt
> > A.OUT NYTID.C
>
> From this can I assume that the RT-11 FS only does one case of letters?
> If that's true then I wonder if it's better to hard-wire it to lower case.
> It would make typing easier...
At a minimum, yes. RAD50 encoding only has one set of 26 letters and those
are normally printed as upper case but on such systems, file names are not
case-significant. The ideal for an RT11 vfs layer would be case insensitivity.