[net.micro.cpm] Filename attributes in lowercase - a proposal

bridger@Rand-Unix.ARPA (04/10/84)

On terminals that don't have highlighting, it's not easy to determine
a file's attributes.  I propose a simple, portable convention for
use in file utilities, telecommunications and applications programs:

If an attribute bit is set, display the corresponding character in the
filename in lower case.  Thus,

	STAT.coM        would be Read/Only, SYStem
	mAC.COM         would mean bit 1 is set

This isn't perfect -- a short filename or filetype won't always have
its attributes displayed.  But it could
readily be incorporated into the next revisions of MDM7, SD, XDIR, NSWP,...