Case sensitive file names: what do other systems do

Tue Nov 4 05:39:15 AEST 1986

From: guy at sun.com (Guy Harris)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 86 00:51:47 PST

> In case you weren't aware, PC-DOS also has a mechanism for changing
> the date and time display formats based on what country you are in.
> You can set the country by using a statement such as country = 031
> (for the Netherlands) in the config.sys file.

Yes.  Note, however, that this still doesn't do anything about the limited
character set permitted for MS-DOS files, so it seems you're stuck if you
want to give a file a name that includes characters not in the regular ASCII
set (or even some characters *in* the regular ASCII set).

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