Subject: Re: RT-11 filesystem.
To: Allison J Parent <allisonp@world.std.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/21/2000 17:01:07
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Allison J Parent 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...
> 
> Uppercase only, RAD50 encoded in the file name.ext.  All of RT11 as OS and 
> utiliities are uppercase so consistance is required.

	The files on the filesystem should be stored upper case only, but
	the filesystem can present lowercase files to the upper layers,
	in a similar fashion to the original msdos implementation - and
	accept any case.

		David/absolute