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- From: pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pete Sierant)
- Subject: Re: POSIX/U... for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.160651.504@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: chaotic to the abstract
- References: <1992Sep3.054111.2030@eyepoint.com> <ww9JqB2w164w@uuisis.isis.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:06:51 GMT
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- In article <ww9JqB2w164w@uuisis.isis.org> evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion) writes:
-
- [...]
-
- >Another thing that I would like to see is a new HPFS driver that is more
- >like Unix, lets you use "/" and "\" when changing directories and is case
- >sensitive. The case sensitivity is partially there, with the file system
- >being able to record the case but not being sensitive to the case entered.
- >Another thing, why are there spaces allowed in filenames? I realize that it
- >is good in a word processor to be able to save a file as "Letter to Norm"
- >instead of "Letter.to.Norm", but spaces are a real pain when you have to do
- >file manipulation in CMD.EXE (having to "" everything). As above, any comments
- >will be graciously accepted!
- >
- >Evan
-
- Not to revive an old thread, but there are those (like me), who would
- rather kiss Dan Quayle on the lips than deal with case sensitivity.
- As for the other bits you mention, get 4OS2, a shareware replacement for
- CMD.EXE. It allows "\" and "/", has file name completion to make spaces
- easy to deal with, history window, aliases so you can type mv, ls, and cat
- instead of move, dir and copy. It's probably somewhere on Hobbes.
-
-
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