Subject: Re: RT-11 filesystem.
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/20/2000 23:15:13
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:32:23 -0800
Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net> wrote:
> > > 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.
right, I'd suspect it'd be handled like msdosfs... case-insensitive
lookup, but print all uppercase (except for when long file names are
enabled :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>