Re: [MiNT] MiNTlib - new functions

["Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>]

Petr Stehlik wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:14:54 +0100, Michael Schwingen wrote:
> 
> MS>I strongly oppose functions in the library that mangle filenames in
> MS>any way if it is made default and can´t be turned off.
> 
> Well. The readdir() returns all TOS FAT filenames in lowercase. This is
> default and it´s inbuilt in the library. But nobody minds it even if it
> mangles every single filename (filenames on TOS FAT fs are stored in
> upper case physically).
> 
> I have suggested to check the destination filesystem type and if it´s
> TOS FAT fs I wanted to let the filename convert so it wouldn´t write
> spaces and other dangerous characters to disk. Please note it would
> check and convert the filename only if the filesystem couldn´t handle
> that!
> 
> You know, writting the file name as it is (say "HELLO WORLD") causes
> very bad things to your directory structure, that´s clear. Fixing it in
> every application ever written or ported with MiNTlib *is* possible, but
> takes a lot of work and time.

It should be fixed where it's broken, not in the library. So I would
prefer to see a TSR hooking into GEMDOS (which would then have to load
before MiNT in case TOSFS is still in use).

Regards, jr