Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: BASIC.SYSTEM v1.4 (was Re: BASIC.SYSTEM v1.3 Bug) Message-ID: <35071@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 22:48:05 GMT References: <1989Sep27.023104.971@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 18 In article <1989Sep27.023104.971@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( Chumley The Troll ) writes: >Will B.S 1.4 display/allow the use of lowercase in filenames? That's one >of the things I REALLY like about p8 1.8 now, and it seemed that B.S 1.3 >didn't use it. Nope. ProDOS 8 1.8 was *not* changed to actually allow lowercase characters in filenames. It was only changed to not barf when it sees the bits in a subdirectory's directory entry that show GS/OS's ProDOS FST which characters are lowercase. See GS/OS Technical Note #8 for more information. -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems America--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.