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Re: MBASIC lower case file name errors

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by: Rhinozz - Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:19 UTC

On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 1:09:10 PM UTC-4, willh...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4:09:26 PM UTC-7, Fred Weigel wrote:
> > Yes, CP/M cannot era lower-case names - but MBASIC can:
> >
> > If you have saved a file:
> >
> > SAVE "oops.bas"
> >
> > with a lower-case name, go back into MBASIC and:
> >
> > KILL "oops.bas"
> >
> > to erase it.
> Seems to me the fundamental issue here is simply that the CCP automatically converts the command line to upper case before it actually executes the command. The BDOS doesn't seem to care about case per se, but since the CCP is driving this, the uppercase requirement sticks. Arguable it's a gap in MBASIC for not uppercasing file names itself before calling the BDOS also.

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