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From: "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: case sensitive file test
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Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 18:00:00 +0100
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In article <5876c7ef57bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
   Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:

> I might have expected a flag on the entry to OS_file 17 to say fixed case
> but it appears not.

Is not, and has the filer not always been, famously case agnostic?

And as a consequence, isn't your expectation above a bit unreasonable?

John