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DOS filenames are uppercase. That came from CP/M. In early days, computers just don't do lowercase. When you do case-insensitivty, storing names in uppercase
by j16sdiz 3y ago
DOS filenames are uppercase.
That came from CP/M.
In early days, computers just don't do lowercase.
When you do case-insensitivty, storing names in uppercase make sense if all older filesystem are uppercase only
- cbsmith 3y agoInterestingly, CP/M's filesystem would actually do lowercase. It's just CPP would uppercase every command entered at the command line before executing it. Not surprisingly, people tended to use uppercase with CP/M.